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...Grand Electors of France turned out last week to elect a new Council of the Republic, the government's upper house. Some came from Paris and the big cities. But the great majority were prosperous, pipe-smoking farmers. In leather gaiters and stained, shapeless hats, and smelling of the land in which they were rooted, they represented the traditional backbone of France...
Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 65, ailing for six weeks with an ulcer, was ordered to cut down his smoking to two pipes a day. Forthwith he sent out for the biggest pipe that could be bought in London...
...Girard Davidson agreed that allocations had just about been done to death-but by a different hand. He had asked the Department of Commerce's Steel Products Advisory Committee (composed of 27 of the industry's top executives) for enough steel to permit all oil line-pipe mills and mine machinery makers to operate at capacity. The committee had turned him down. Last week Davidson accused the committee of "supplying steel for nonessential and even frivolous purposes ... I can draw no conclusion . . . other than that the steel industry has decided to jettison the voluntary allocations program...
...Sophomore virtuose kept in practice over the summer by acting as pipe sergeant for the Coquille, Ore., Drum and Bagpipe band. That organization was starred at the September state Convention of the American Legion at Asteria, Oregon...
...party leadership, new faces were slowly coming to the fore. Chief among these was Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, who is chairman of the party's committee on policy. In figure and pipe-smoking placidity, he recalls Stanley Baldwin; there might come a time when the exhausted British electorate would like just such...