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Tennessee's ex-G.I. Pat Sutton held up a large photograph of a Negro boy eating a piece of watermelon. The boy, he explained, was happy and he did not want FEPC. But New York's Congressman Donald O'Toole, who reminded the House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against...
When Rome's picture weekly, La Setti-mana Incom, hit the newsstands last week, Italians took one look at its cover and rushed to buy. Although Ingrid Bergman has permitted no photographs of herself and child, Incom's cover showed a joyful Ingrid cooing to her newborn babe in a hospital room, while Roberto Rossellini, the doctor, the nurse and even the Madonna (from a painting on the wall) seemed to beam with approval. Incom's teasing caption: "The Strange Story of This Photograph...
...tabloid Evening Graphic.-The picture was a fake-or what Incom called a photomontage. Incom's editors had cut out the heads from an old photo of Ingrid and Roberto, and with some paste and an artist's deft strokes, superimposed them, with others, on a photograph posed against the background of a hospital room (see cut). For readers who might feel tricked, Incom ran the original photographs inside, along with a diagram showing how they were mated. The stunt paid off. Incom sold a record 260,000 copies, one-third more than its usual circulation. Among...
...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...
...refused to answer the question whether they were Communists. Donald Hiss categorically denied being a Red. Alger Hiss also denied the accusations, and added once more that as far as he could recall he had never in his life seen Chambers, said that he did not recognize his photograph, and declared that he had never even heard of the man until FBI agents asked him about Chambers in 1947. Ailing, 55-year-old Harry White, who also denied that he had ever been a Communist, died a few days later of a heart attack...