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...fortnight ago TIME'S International department carried a story about a display of 200 TIME cover portraits in the window of the United States Information Service Library in Prague...
...outstanding Navy aviator, the eldest of five Annapolis-bred brothers, Crommelin had had a distinguished airman's career on Pacific carriers. Since last spring he has been serving in Washington as a naval-aviation expert on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last fortnight he had suddenly burst into print with charges that the Navy's offensive power was "being nibbled to death...
...that evening. When the hour came, Sir Stafford, in clipped, clear accents, spoke into a microphone at No. 10 Downing Street: "Good evening. I don't think I need tell you that I've just got back from the United States, where I have spent the last fortnight with the Foreign Secretary trying to work out, with our Canadian and American friends, some solution to a very serious problem...
...would buy just as much as before of products made at home, or of imports from sterling areas. Imports from dollar areas would cost more-most importantly, wheat from North America. Since the British government could afford no added food subsidies, consumers would pay the difference. Within a fortnight the price of bread would go up from 4? pence to sixpence. Experts predicted that the British cost of living would rise 5% in a few months...
British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...