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...cavalier kind of Communist, who no more submits to real Communist discipline than he does to any other discipline. Still, as a volunteer Communist, Picasso has contributed a flock of molting peace pigeons and the free use of his name to the party's cultural front. A fortnight ago, the party asked Picasso for a portrait of Stalin...
Pierre hired two detective agencies to find her, and when they did, he dashed to London, asking Eileen to marry him. Eileen said no, but agreed to one last weekend together. As "Mr. & Mrs. Pierre Delaitre of Paris," they registered a fortnight ago at the Ritz, the staid old Victorian hostelry on Piccadilly. Their room was No. 223-one of the best in the house, painted a glowing pink and with a Louis...
...Insult. Fortnight ago their chance came. Yoshida was under attack in the press for following a foreign policy "subservient" to that of the U.S. Socialists accused him of rearming Japan before Japan can afford rearmament; rightists warned that he is not rearming Japan fast enough to meet the Communist threat. (Hatoyama favors direct rearmament, wants to remove the disarmament pledge which MacArthur put into the Japanese constitution; Yoshida prefers the subterfuge of a national police force...
Doctors gave Actress Bette Davis, whose Broadway show Two's Company closed a fortnight ago because of her frequent illness, an unhappy diagnosis: severe chronic osteomyelitis of the jawbone. She was ordered to the hospital to have the entire infected portion of the bone removed...
Gianella de Marco of Pescara, Italy, is a leggy little eight-year-old with mouse-colored hair and smoky blue eyes. She may also be one of the most remarkable musical talents in a generation. Fortnight ago, with a doll or two packed in her luggage along with her batons, Gianella arrived in England to rehearse the famed London Philharmonic for performances in Manchester and London...