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...terrible-tempered star performer was in top form, churlishly contemptuous of questioners and questions. Lean, sarcastic Senator Millard Tydings put oldster Ickes in the witness chair for cross-examination of his testimony about the nub of the Pauley case: the "rawest proposition" which Harold Ickes said Democratic National Treasurer Ed Pauley had made to him about tidelands oil and campaign contributions (TIME...
...Spencer Davis: "We were fired on by unknown snipers while inspecting a stripped textile mill." Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's A. T. Steele: "The Tommy gun is king, and you see it everywhere." The New York Post's Robert P. ("Pepper") Martin, usually willing to lean over backwards to give the Soviets a break, angrily reported a "studied and cynical 'freeze' against correspondents, who received treatment usually accorded spies or nationals of an unfriendly nation. . . . This correspondent walked through city streets after dark with chill fear gripping his stomach when challenges sounded...
Report on Greece (MARCH OF TIME) provides a quick, sobering glance at the tragic face of modern Greece. A review of domestic problems and foreign pressures since the Italian invasion of 1940, the film offers no facile suggestions for the solution of either. The record of five long, lean years speaks eloquently for itself: desolation, inflation, civil war, Soviet imperial ambitions waiting behind the scenes, British imperial power parading the streets...
Shells & Toppers. Britons were too busy with the mere mechanics of existence; they could not listen to the rumblings of a shaking empire. It was of more immediate interest that seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
Last week, after many turnings, Averell Harriman's chosen path led him into a State Department reception room in Washington. Greying at 54, but still lean and handsome, he had just flown to the U.S. from Moscow. The President had appointed his successor-shrewd, driving Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...