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...weary, sweaty 37th, this was a hell of a note. Growled General Beightler: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those --feather merchants beat...
Sally Rand, titillating terpsichorean, whose art consists of publicly manipulating two outsized feather fans, wriggled out of a $150,747 damage suit. She said she had a right to "some privacy," hence a right to bite and scratch two would-be photographers who had clicked a shutter at a slow-moving fan. A California court agreed...
...rapid extension of the union shop. His reason: labor leadership is "not competent to use this great power wisely." Moreover, because it is a monopoly power, Ruml argues that the union shop must inevitably lead to Government regulation of unions to bar racial discrimination, excessive production costs through "feather bedding," etc. Until "the majority of labor leaders . . . are willing to accept such regulations as the price of the union shop ... too much haste [in extending it] would cause bitter, wasteful and unnecessary strife...
...time the picture was finished, nobody knew what to expect in terms of the box office. (Its first showings, according to Variety, were "modest" to "good" in Los Angeles, "standout" in Washington.) But however the film makes out financially, it is one of the pictures of the year, a feather in the cap of all concerned in its making. In the U.S., major productions have rarely dared to tackle so wholeheartedly so harshly human a subject...
Dark, undapper Frederick Robert Kuh (pronounced coo) last week could stick another large feather in his old beret. As he pedaled his creaky bicycle down to London's Whitehall he could expand his slight chest over the almost unanimous judgment of his colleagues: Freddie Kuh is the best U.S. foreign correspondent...