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Minnesota Republicans firmly beat down the bustling attempt by tall, mellow Senator Henrik Shipstead, who moved into their house two years ago from the old Farmer-Labor Party, to set himself up as head man in place of able young Governor Harold E. Stassen. Last week's primary was a whopping defeat for Senator Shipstead's men: renominated by big margins were both Governor Stassen and his close friend, Joseph Hurst Ball, the ex-newspaperman whom Stassen appointed to the Senate in 1940. With the Farmer-Labor Party on the skids and the Democrats scarcely heard from, Stassen...
...Senator Henrik Shipstead is a tall and mellow fellow, has spent 19 years in the Senate by mastering the ancient political trick of keeping both ears on the ground at once. In 1940 his overdeveloped ears gave him a warning and forthwith Henrik Shipstead moved out of the old Farmer-Labor Party, and became a Republican...
...bloodshot eyes. Since Christmas night, not a new show-and only one revival, Porgy and Bess-had really managed to click on Broadway. There had been 16 shows in all, half of them by well-known playwrights-Clifford Odets, Charles MacArthur, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John van Druten, Samson Raphaelson, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Hecht; and last week there was Marc Connelly. But this week Connelly had joined the rest: his Flowers of Virtue withered after four performances...
...even the most imperturbable eyebrow. When the play is Ibsen's, the actress is Katina Paxinou, and the lines are streamlined in a modernized translation, the result is enough to raise the other eyebrow and a good round of applause to boot. Though in any production of "Hedda Gabler" Henrik Ibsen must remain the outstanding attraction, Mrs. Paxinou interprets the role with challenging individuality. Her sensitivity and restraint as the neurotic and theatrical Hedda prevent her overdoing a part that can be easily overdone. No doubt "Hedda Gabler" profits from the fact that its star is no stranger either...
There was something in the air at Stockholm also. The arrival in Stockholm of Finnish Premier Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Trade Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner, Supply Minister Henrik Ramsay and onetime Premier Juho Kusti Paasikivi, started rumors that Finland was asking Russia for peace. Finns claimed these important ministers were in Stockholm to discuss food only, but this subject is closely related to peace in Finnish minds...