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...Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, Inc., among whose labor statesmen are numbered Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, Actor Fredric March and Playwright Moss Hart, got into the fray with $1,840 worth of newspaper ads. They urged Americans to contribute to the strikers at General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel or "any other struck corporation." (Presumably each strike's issues and merits were beside the point...
Atomic scientists talked and acted as if they were the world's guilty men. Appalled by their miracle, they rushed from their laboratories into the political fray to oppose the Government plan to control atomic research. They huddled in private, wrote and talked to Congress, cried in the press that something must be done. Some of them, convinced that nationalization of atomic research would be a fatal error, even talked of violating the Army's security regulations to force a showdown...
...Army have become colonels and brigadier generals." They will be entitled to wear a neon star with blinker, and cap covers with a center rosette ringed with a one-half-inch band of phosphorescent material. Shirt collars and cuffs will be distinguished by a lacy fringe or fray and tinted a darker hue. (No pay increase is contemplated...
...followed the discovery by 'Poonsters, still rankling over their 23 to 2 baseball defeat at the hands of the Crime last Saturday, that the ulterior regions of their Ibis had been painted red some observers termed the color crimson-Monday night. In seeking a temporary armistice after Tuesday's fray, Lampy revealed that his stuffed Ibis, even more sacred than the metal one that stands vigil over Bow Street, had been lost in Saturday's revels...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...