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...Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption in every shape or form." The politicians had been arrested...
...movement." But unless Naguib can soon produce more concrete benefits for the man in the street and in the fields, the mood may change. Naguib has ordered all parties to purge themselves. "We have had enough of corruption!" he cried. But the Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting...
...referring to a "mess," was Stevenson just repeating the Journal's question or was he, as Republicans gleefully said, admitting that the Truman Administration was a mess of graft? When reporters put this to him at a midweek press conference, Stevenson at first seemed to adopt the second interpretation. Said he: "It's been proved, hasn't it? . . . Several people have been indicted." Then, backing off a bit, he added: "I would think that was probably true of any government, and more or less all of the time. What we want to do is reduce the number...
Treatment at some of London's best hospitals did no good. A trial operation to graft normal skin from his chest to his horny palms proved worse than useless: the grafted skin blackened like the rest, then shrank and stiffened his fingers. The boy went to school, but his teachers and the other pupils objected to him. Though he was quick to respond to affection, he got so little that he became shy and lonely...
...restaurants which the OPS accused of violating price ceilings. Hearst's Journal-American TV Columnist Jack O'Brian lent Colleague Winchell a helping hand with thinly disguised items about a certain "fishface" disk jockey, whom he accused of every crime from welshing on his debts to collecting graft to finance a trip to Europe...