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...Senate voted 43-40 against the Seaway, with the opposition bulwarked in the Atlantic and Gulf states and in areas sensitive to railroad and coal interests. But during the last fortnight, the bulwarks began to crack; one Senator after another shifted to support of the Seaway. The Administration appealed to the Republicans on the basis of national security and loyalty to the President. Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned the Senators that the Russians have six times as many submarines as the Germans did in 1939, said supplies of Canadian iron ore in a future...
Three more ballplayers-Nos. 71, 72 and 73-were voted into baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. last week by U.S. baseball writers. No. 71 was a jaunty character whose death, a fortnight ago, gave the writers a sentimental additional reason for voting for him. No. 72 was a steady performer, long overdue, who made it on popularity and merit. No. 73, an irascible immortal who never bothered, as player and manager, to conceal his dislike for baseball writers, finally made the grade in spite of himself...
...collection of startling remarks, ex-President Harry S. Truman added this one last fortnight: "I'm the only man who ever sent a Communist to jail." What about the Eisenhower Administration's record to date? The question was answered by Attorney General Herbert Brownell on last week's Report from the White House radio program. In its first year, Brownell said, the Eisenhower Administration has: ¶ Convicted and jailed, under the Smith Act, 17 Communist Party leaders. They were indicted when Truman was still in office, and are now free on bail, pending appeal...
...avoiding excessive sunbathing: "I like to feel blonde all over"). She has also proved, to the surprise of many critics, that she can sing, dance and act (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire). Now seriously concerned about her career, she walked out on her studio a fortnight ago, just before she was to begin work on a musical called Pink Tights, a remake of Betty Grable's Coney Island (1943). The studio suspended her, but two days after the wedding announced that all was forgiven if Marilyn would only come back to work...
...having Alan Ladd go through his deadpan heroics as a member of the British army. Ex-U.S. Captain Ladd pretends to be a Canadian and volunteers as a private in the paratroops. He soon learns that, no matter what uniform they wear, noncoms are noncoms, and spends a fortnight in the stockade for slugging his corporal in a barroom brawl. But the picture soon demonstrates that it intends to be different: one of the tough top kicks, showing his squad how easy it is to bail out of a plane, plummets sickeningly to his death because his parachute fails...