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These last two days before Lent were the crashing, climactic orgy of Munich's Fasching-the first full-dress, no-holds-barred carnival after a decade of war and ruin. In the whole Fasching time (which the bold began the second week in January), Munich has writhed and staggered through some 2,500 public and 25,000 private parties; the city has pocketed some 150,000 marks in entertainment taxes. This year, Munich citizens had decided that nothing mattered more than a successful Fasching: families pawned beds, shoes and watches to buy costumes; impoverished baronesses slashed their last evening...
...trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist front or Communist organizations" to which Dr. Shipler lent his name between 1939 and 1949. Nine of them, says Birkhead, are listed by the Attorney General as "Communist...
...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...
Before he left, there was a final flurry of victorious communiques. Item: Frank Sinatra and Edgar Bergen had joined the talented throng (e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Red Skelton) that had deserted NBC for Paley's CBS. Item: Prudential Insurance Co. had lent CBS $5,000,000 to add muscle to the network's already long...
Bouncy Betty Mutton, playing hostess at a birthday party for Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature, lent her celebrated lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...