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Columnist Paddleford. who can smell a food story behind any big news, toured England at coronation time ("Fluids are hissing, greases are sputtering . . . foods are en masse, the raw and the cooked awaiting the administering hands of the experts"), traveled to Fulton, Mo. in 1946 to hear Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech (where she interviewed a grocer who said that there were so many dinners given in honor of the event that he sold "enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium"). One New Year's Day. she appropriately headed a column "Some Morning-After Cures" (samples: twelve dashes...
Krock sent Crimson linguists scrounging through foreign dictionaries to translate his wire, but when it was finally deciphered it was found that he too spurned the Crime's offer. "As we used to remind one another in Nassau Hall," Knock wrote. "Ledigheid is honkers moodier en van dieted voile brooder." (Idleness is hunger's mother, and of thieves it is full brother...
Defense Requires Depth. In the wings, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who suffers from liver trouble, stayed up all one night to prepare his own climactic speech for the occasion. He hoped France's deputies would at least approve the European Army en principe so that he and Premier Laniel would have something to take with them to the Big Three meeting at Bermuda on Dec. 4. Preparing for the speech, Bidault fortified himself with energy pills...
...work on the massive "Stalin Projects" (Volga-Don Canal, Kuibyshev power station), and in atom plants in central Siberia. Supervised by GULAG, the industrial arm of the MVD (secret police), a minority of the slaves are political prisoners; many are Crimean Tartars and other minorities, shipped to Siberia en masse...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued a 350-word sworn statement. Said Gouzenko: "Mr. Pearson was ill-advised . . . I can give advice which . . . would have good chances of bringing exposure of present Soviet spy rings...