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Ever since the middle of the war, the Viennese have felt hunger. Today, Vienna's once brimming Naschmarkt is closed down except for an occasional cabbage or flower counter, and Viennese eat about as much in one day as an American eats for breakfast. The weekly ration (except for heavy workers) consists of one loaf of bread, two ounces of dried meat, three ounces of fat, a cup and a half of flour, a cup and a half of dried peas and five ounces of sugar. Many Viennese know that they would not be eating at all this month...
Fiorello LaGuardia, who walks less delicately than Agag, was dropped by his sore-shinned radio sponsor. Five months after Liberty handed him "the freedom of the air," the magazine called it quits. The loud Little Flower was "at variance with our policies," as Publisher Paul Hunter put it. Reported LaGuardia: "Mr. Hunter ... told me . . . the advertisers didn't like my Sunday night radio program. They were pressing him hard. I have lost Liberty," he cried, "but I retain my soul...
Even in countries like Yugoslavia, where UNRRA's local administration is relatively efficient, there were headaches for the Little Flower. The New York Post's Tom Healy wrote last week: "UNRRA has developed into a political instrument of great importance in the hands of Marshal Tito and his seven fellow Communists who rule Yugoslavia. . . . The people . . . seem unaware that the food which has kept them alive this year has come free from nations far away . . . from strongholds of democracy and capitalism. . . . Sometimes the food [is] displayed under beribboned pictures of Tito and Stalin. . . . Russia sends no food...
Since popular discontent forced Dictator Getulio Vargas to permit free politicking last year, long-undercover Communism had bloomed like a jungle flower. In last winter's elections, the Communists had rallied 600,000 votes behind a presidential candidate little known three weeks before. One Rio senator was a Communist: Leader Prestes, for the anniversary of whose liberation from prison Communists last month had rounded up the largest rally in Brazilian history. The majority of Brazil's topflight intellectuals-artists, writers, architects-had lined up for Communist membership cards. Communism was so strong in Brazil that there was talk...
...flower painting she brings a technique familiar in photography but seldom attempted on canvas: the dramatic closeup. Like a bee, she explores the innermost recesses of hollyhocks, irises and morning-glories, and manages to extract an almost cloying degree of honey-sweet, cream-smooth satisfaction from them...