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Canada's courtly Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent paid his first call on President Eisenhower last week and Washington rolled out its plushiest red carpet. In two days with the President and other Administration leaders, St. Laurent covered a lot of ground. Among topics discussed: ¶ The St. Lawrence Seaway (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Asked how he felt about the seaway aftef 'talking to President Eisenhower, St. Laurent answered diplomatically : neither encouraged nor discouraged. ¶ U.S.-Canadian trade. St. Laurent worried about U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, particularly about a bill, now pending before the House of Representatives, which...
...Britain's plushiest royal-carpet treatment, usually reserved for His Majesty's closest allies. Last week it was meted out to Konrad Adenauer, the first German Chancellor to cross the English Channel since 1931, when Chancellor Heinrich Bruening visited Labor Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald...
...Four-Star Ovation. Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill...
That could be fixed. Angel Farrell paid a lump-sum $1,300,000 for the Warner Theater ("a cash deal is best") and closed Hold It! until he could reopen it in his own property. He shelled out $200,000 to make the house the town's plushiest and, with its silk-damasked walls, probably the gaudiest. When contractual snarls developed over transplanting Hold It!, Farrell switched from musicomedy to revue, signed up Comics Bert Wheeler and Paul and Grace Hartman, tossed in another $250,000 and put on All for Love. It was a critical flop...
This week he had changed his mind. Mammy-Singer Jolson, 61, had joined the regulars in one of radio's plushiest assignments: star of NBC's Kraft Music Hall (Thurs. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Why? Jolson himself was ready with a long-winded explanation. He had tried to persuade the sponsor to let him supply the punch the Music Hall has lacked since Crosby left the show last year. He had been turned down cold. Al's version of it sounded like the lyric of an oldtime Jolson song...