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...target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"-sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly...
Illustrator George Petty pooh-poohed the vaunted French chic: "When the middle-class French girl dresses up, she undresses. Her costume is a display of sex . . . whereas the healthy outdoor life of the American girl gives her natural radiance, which is the true attraction of the opposite...
...Tricky U.C.L.A. invaded Big Ten country to whip corn-fed Iowa (41-25) after cries of "Espionage" and countercries of "Nonsense." The Iowa campus was in a storm over a report (pooh-poohed by U.C.L.A.) that a student and former Hawkeye center had telephoned vital Iowa football secrets to U.C.L.A.'s new and talented coach, Red Sanders. The loudest roar in the storm was the voice of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher: "A breach of canons . . . moral turpitude . . . Such a student would not be justified in receiving a degree from this university...
...Last Sunday our fleet made 30 trips, with a total of 150 passengers," he said. "When I am offered money, I suggest that they put the amount of the fare into the church collection box." Gray pooh-poohs the financial sacrifice on his part. "In the early morning, business is bad," he explains. "I just wanted to thank the Lord for my good fortune...
...Pooh-Bah. In Hobart, Okla., County Attorney Carpenter Hughes, arrested for drunkenness, declined to press charges against himself...