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...Blunt Hint. Before a military court of inquiry, Dides at first stuck to his refusal to reveal his source. But after a second grilling, he revealed that he got the papers from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...Fine Arts Center had on view its fifth biennial show of new acquisitions by U.S. museums. Among the 59 pictures by contemporary U.S. painters, 14 works were realistic. Thirteen were completely nonobjective. Of the rest, a majority could be described as semi-decipherable, mainly because the artists gave a hint of their meanings by the titles. Said Director James Byrnes of the Fine Arts Center: "Nonobjective painting is not confined to any one place. It has permeated to the grass roots. Regionalism is essentially dead, and representational painting has almost been submerged. U.S. nonobjective artists are in the forefront...
...expected to 1) take the nomination himself, or 2) give it to U.S. Senator Irving Ives, who doesn't want it. Last week, when the governor stepped before 5,000 Republicans at an anniversary dinner in Long Point, N.Y., everyone listened carefully for an announcement or a hint...
...wore on, the filibusterers began to hint that they had had their fun and would fold up their cots this week. Gore, looking fresh as ever, admitted that his fight "is now one of hopeless odds." Toward evening Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had been conspicuously silent, proposed that all agree to a limitation of debate. Characteristically, Morse objected. Nevertheless, with Johnson telling his Democrats that it was time to show some sense of responsibility, the filibustered were not likely to hold out much longer. Bill Knowland, clearly frazzled but somewhat encouraged, decided to let the Senators take Sunday...
...good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse, she is probably the only actress alive who can stick a thermometer in a man's mouth and say, without a hint of affectation: "See if you can break a hundred...