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America's mission to "unite and organize the resources and defenses of the Free World" can only be carried out under the leadership of General Eisenhower, according to Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government...
...Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, added a new twist to his colleague's speculations. Regarding the news of Russians in Korea as no surprise, he commented, "what would be more interesting would be if these 'Russians turned out to be really captured German technicians...
According to Hopper, this news may be merely a Russian "diversion." He pointed out that the last such diversion was the 1948-9 Berlin air-lift "during which china slipped away," and added, "Whenever I find anything obvious, I look on the other side of the globe for the real move on the chessboard...
...Hollywood, Columnist Hedda Hopper cried: "Hundreds of people . . . maybe thousands . . . all those wonderful people we call little people . . . were pleased" with the news. "No one can deny," wrote Hedda, that Chaplin "is a good actor. He is. But that doesn't give him the right to go against our customs, to abhor everything we stand for, to throw our hospitality back in our faces ... I abhor what he stands for ... 'Good riddance to bad company...
This is not surprising. Her movie column has sometimes been the object of abuse and ridicule, her radio voice is uncomfortably nervous and high-pitched, she herself has not always been the subject of affectionate comment, and many competitors, including that spectacularly be-hatted warrior, Hedda Hopper, have tried to beat her at her own game. But in 1952 Louella Parsons, after reigning over a quarter century, is still queen of the Hollywood gossip columnists. Her work appears daily in twelve Hearstpapers and is syndicated in some 1,200 others throughout the world. She is held in awe, respect, esteem...