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...welter of stories one hard fact stuck out: the white-haired, 57-year-old prelate had left his red brick palace and flown across Canada to the seclusion of a Catholic nursing home in Victoria. At midweek, an archdiocesan official confirmed his presence there "for a prolonged rest"; Apostolic Delegate Ildebrando An-toniutti would add nothing more...
...from the wings in midweek came the roar of a wounded lion. Fifty-nine-year-old Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior had heard nothing yet about a contract and he thought he should have been approached before "all the small ones." His manager fired off a telegram to Bing demanding to know by next day where Melchior stood. Replied Rudi Bing coldly: "I am not prepared to submit to ultimatums...
Small Victory. Very much on the spot, Secretary Acheson sternly declared at his midweek press conference, that "it was and is the U.S. view that the British action [against dollar oil] was taken without adequate consultation with American companies . . ." In London, Acheson's rebuke stirred up fresh worries that the crisis might lead to a reduction in Marshall...
...been played to death, Reporter Truman talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...
Uneasy Order. By midweek, National Guardsmen, swollen to 300 and mounting .50-caliber machine guns, had brought uneasy order to Lake County. A hastily summoned grand jury indicted the three jailed Negroes for rape. Scared Negroes began trickling back to their homes. It looked as if the terror had run its course, without injury to any Negro...