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Chicago, said the U.S.P.H.S., is too hospitable to rats. City laws forbid public exterminators to spread loose poison on private premises. But private exterminators work only in and immediately around buildings. That leaves a "no man's land'' in every backyard, which the rats have been quick to discover...
...Britain's House of Commons, the talk got around to the old question: should a schoolboy ever be beaten? Laborite Peter Freeman, president of the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain, wanted to forbid the "brutalizing" practice...
...very bad woman (Veronica Lake), a very good one (Arleen Whelan), a good man (Joel McCrea) and a rat (Preston Foster). The main problems: 1) Will Miss Lake prevail against her father (Charles Ruggles), Foster and his hard guys, in her determination to graze her cattle on land they forbid her? and 2) Which girl will ultimately throw and brand McCrea...
...begun," he wrote. "Without reservation . . . [the Socialist Party] will be on the side of the Republic." The moderate MRP's leaders were cautious and worried. The Right's approval of De Gaulle was markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit to De Gaulle. In his white-walled villa, over black coffee, "le grand Charlie" tried to reassure Ramadier. "I am no Boulanger,"* De Gaulle said. Ramadier was taking...
...explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover of music...