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...explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover of music...
...opposition to the Truman Doctrine was vehement. It came from isolationists like the New York Daily News, from pacifists like the National Council for Prevention of War, from Russophiles like Senator Claude Pepper, from liberals like Fiorello LaGuardia, who would feed the starving of Greece but leave Greece's Communist troubles to U.N. It came from such Red outposts as the Daily Worker and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. But for all its vehemence it was scattered. No one man had yet sounded the cry around which all factions could rally...
Reunited: Cinemactress Ilona Massey and her very motherly-looking mother, Mrs. Lydia Hagymasy, who arrived from Budapest; after ten years; at New York's LaGuardia Field. Actress Massey was having a full week: she had just appealed to Washington to let her Aunt Terez stay in the U.S., and she was about to marry Tier third husband...
...York's LaGuardia airport last week, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis W. Douglas posed patiently for photographers. He admitted to reporters that times were "somewhat difficult." A close relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain was, he felt, "one of the important factors in the establishment of a lasting peace." Mr. Truman's foreign policy speech clearly showed that "this time we are not going to withdraw from foreign affairs...
...Secretary. Commerce Secretary and Vice President Wallace, but the man himself eludes him. Wallace, to Lord, "is my kind of guy." but readers will look in vain for something of Wallace's personal life, his tastes and habits. Nor does Lord document, though he tries to support, Fiorello LaGuardia's estimate of Wallace as "just a humble little man who has lived the Sermon on the Mount...