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...Another Hollywoodsman with a yen for politics, Edward Arnold, portentous statesman of the movies and radio, who a fortnight ago filed for Senator on the Republican side, last week reconsidered and withdrew...
...Fortnight ago Mikoyan made a fresh start on his life's hope: to give the sluggish...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
Leafing through the St. Paul Dispatch last fortnight, Jimmy Lewis, 14, caught his breath as he came upon two rogues'-gallery photographs of a tough-looking customer. The story with the pictures, one of a series' on public enemies by Hearst's International News Service, identified the man as William Raymond Nesbit, 50, Iowa jewel thief, murderer-by-dynamite and escaped convict. Jimmy thought the face was familiar; it looked like "Ray," a man who was living in a cave in a park not ten minutes from St. Paul's downtown...
...Fortnight ago, when he finally made his first public appearance at a one-night stand in Wrentham, Mass., the Flanagan flair seemed to be just as effective at close range. Last week, when Flanagan & orchestra opened at New Jersey's famed Meadowbrook, the roadhouse had its biggest crowd in four years...