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...Strapontins. So far, the Communist spider had not walked into the fly's parlor. Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, however, was maneuvering so that he could take full advantage of an offer from Herriot & Co. whenever they were willing to pay his price. His present tactics called for grèves tournantes-revolving strikes -which hit one industry after another, creating enough damage to offset ECA help to France but limited enough to hold the door open to overtures from Herriot...
...with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...
...Hollywood last week, the President's daughter also met the press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...
Mexico City's riproaring El Universal Gráfico ripped into a juicy medical scandal. Physicians assigned to make premarital blood tests were drawing out more than enough for the tests and were selling the extra amount (sometimes as much as a pint) at high prices. Roared the Gráfico: "These vampires are sucking the blood of Mexican men, robbing them of their strength just when they need it most...
Graduate students receiving Sheldon Travelling Fellowships are: John M. Blum '43 2G, history; Constantine P. Cavarnos '42 3G, philosophy; Arthur P. Gardner 3G, Germanic languages and literatures; John M. Maxon 3G, fine arts; Charles L. Remington 1G, biology; Thomas C. Smith 1G, history; and Henry T. Dohrman, Jr., Gr. Dv., theology...