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Republicans had a victory in New York City, a Democratic stronghold. Researchers of Pulse, Inc. last week reported that the Republican Convention had average New York City ratings of 43% a night compared with only 32% for the Democratic Convention. Pulse suggested three explanations for the flop: 1) a long heat wave that kept people out of doors, 2) baseball competition, 3) the fact that the Republican Convention came first...
...Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...movie and the illicit love affair have a sudden downbeat ending. A sculptor lures Mollie off to Mexico and death by pneumonia. Even with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning to flee the doomed city, carrying the family silver and Picassos...
...Flop. Apparently the French Reds expected a fine turnout to sympathize with Comrade Duclos. They ignored the fact that most French workers-Communist, anti-Communist and all the shades...
...strike was a gigantic flop. There were some riots and train delays in outlying towns, but in Paris, ordinarily the showcase of Red agitation, the streets were quiet and transportation was almost normal. M. Brune announced that only 2% of the C.G.T.'s membership had answered the strike call. Of 240,000 postal and telegraph workers, only two walked out-and were instantly suspended...