Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FROM Paris last week, TIME'S Dec. 12 cover subject, Toymaker Louis Marx, received a note from NATO's commanding General Alfred Gruenther. Wrote the general: "That is a fine tribute to the great Louis Marx. I still feel that Idella's picture should have been on the cover. Not only is she better looking . . . but she has the brains to qualify." (For General Gruenther's second guess...
...Israel itself, after the first satisfaction, misgivings began to be heard. The independent newspaper Haaretz took note of the fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...
Then there are Victor's Singing Dogs yelping out the same tune, one canine voice to a note (done by splicing tapes) to achieve a spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's celebration is rung down by Christmas, Christmas, with chorus, chimes and strings uniting to provide a festive background while the bass voice of George Beverly Shea repeats "Chrishmush, Chrishmush...
...Orthodoxy in North and South America. In return, the Russians had offered to permit Father Louis F. Dion, Assumptionist priest of Worcester, Mass., to replace Father Georges Bissonnette, expelled last March (TIME, March 14), who ministered to the American Roman Catholics in Moscow. There is no similarity, the U.S. note held, between Father Dion's "modest" functions and the powers sought for Boris...
...making fools of themselves over at the UN. That should make the old yule log blaze up bright and cheery next week. And don't worry, if you get yourself into another jam with that peace-and-good-will malarky you've been spreading around, why just drop a note to J.F.D. I'm sure he'll help you out. His address is 2100 Virginia Avenue, Washington...