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...Vice President Nixon is all you say that he is, he is ready for translation from this plane . . . No mere mortal is, could be, or could do everything that Mr. Nixon is reported to be and to have done...
Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is a nobody with an all too mortal longing to be a Somebody. Fired from her job in a Manhattan garment mine, she heads for Central Park to have a daydream of grandeur. Wistfully she gazes at a big, empty billboard on Columbus Circle, imagining how her name would look there in 12-ft. letters: GLADYS GLOVER. What happens next is a hilarious example of dumb-blonde logic. Since her name would look wonderful on the sign, and since she has $1,000 in the bank, why not rent the sign and put her name...
...denied. In one scene, Jane, scantily dressed, does a dance that the Johnston Office regards as "overly suggestive." Even Jane said later that she disapproved of the scene. Last week Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis forbade Catholics in his archdiocese to see the picture "under penalty of mortal...
William Clark, the State Department's sit-down judge (TIME, Dec. 14) and Chief Justice of U.S. courts in West Germany, was struck a mortal diplomatic blow, sure to budge him from the bench. Vacationing in the Canary Islands, Clark, who had vowed he would sit tight even though his commission expires this month, was suddenly telephoned by Robert D. Hale, U.S. Consul General in Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport...
...Mortal Danger. Lyttelton's defense was simple and eloquent: "The security of the colony was in mortal danger . . . Action, immediate action had to take place." The House sustained Lyttelton, 304 to 271; and, despite a three-line party whip, two Laborites broke discipline by refusing to vote against...