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Easy Out. In Portland, Ore., during a heated argument with a woman in a second-floor room, Sherman Baker walked out in a huff, under a misapprehension and through a window...
...choices were sound by any standard, and politically shrewd. Murphy had resigned in a huff last year as an assistant U.S. district attorney, after he was passed over repeatedly when promotions were made; Republicans gibed that Truman did not want to reward the man who had put Alger Hiss in prison. Now, apparently, things were all patched...
...Papagos was not satisfied: he wanted the final say on all official appointees to the royal household. The King ignored him. Then word came that Metaxas, visiting the U.S., was spreading propaganda against Papagos. Last week, in a huff, Papagos resigned. His official reason: ill health...
...Majesty's Prime Minister Clement Attlee says, there is a "new China." There is also a new Butterfield & Swire. Recently the company advertised a ship scheduled to sail from Hong Kong and arrive at Swatow on the south China coast by April n. Red Chinese authorities, in a huff because they had given permission for the ship to dock on April 13 only, refused to advance the entry date. What was more, they demanded a public apology from the company...
...Reds and ex-Reds. Like Actor Hayden, Writer Richard Collins had broken with the party and saw no reason to "go to jail for a year, for guys I don't even like any more." Among them: Novelist Budd Schulberg, who, he said, quit the party in a huff after the Reds tore into his What Makes Sammy Run?, Producer Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen, a score of other lesser Hollywood citizens...