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Inspired Diplomacy. There were many battles still to be won; the struggle over Berlin was just beginning. But the U.S. seemed to be on the right track at last. The quiet refusal of General Lucius Clay to back down a fortnight ago in the face of Russian pressure was a prime example of U.S. resolution. Said a businessman in Kansas City: "Now the people of Europe know what to expect. All we need is the determination to carry through...
...nine years since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
...Baby. The vicar's sermon, said one villager, "set the place on fire." Many a poison-pen victim, who had suffered in silence, thinking that he or she alone had been singled out for attack, rushed to the vicar with his story. Within a fortnight he had several hundred letters to take to the police. Burly Storekeeper Richard Knightly Storm boasted of having got his first 15 years ago: "You felt out in the cold if you hadn't received one." Relieved villagers gave the anonymous writer a jeering name: "The Big Baby...
...Every fortnight, Batista drives off to Palm Beach, Orlando or Fort Pierce for secret meetings with aides who bring the political word from Cuba and take back his instructions. Only when the Cuban government discovers an arms cache and shouts "Batista plot" are Floridians reminded that their guest is dynamite...
Gardenia in Hair. Fortnight ago, eleven days after being released (72 days off for good behavior), Billie made her comeback in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. It was jampacked (300 were seated on the stage) with a crowd of Holiday cultists whose hysterical applause gave the event the quality of a revival meeting. They were telling their martyred Billie that nothing mattered, just so she was back, and that for their money (up to $3.60 a head) she could do no wrong...