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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maladjusted. In Raleigh, North Carolina State Museum officials announced that their most popular fish had drowned...
...midweek Tito had returned to Belgrade. When he showed himself at the construction site of the new city of Belgrade, he was greeted by a popular demonstration. "Tito-Party! Tito-Party!" the comrades chanted. Way off to the north, like an echo, a Dane withdrew from the Danish Communist Party. "I want to join Marshal Tito's brigade," he said. The Tito Party might be contagious...
Peril of the Popular. How many comrades in the rowdy new "peoples' democracies" of Eastern Europe felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian...
Howdy, Mr. Ice (produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirtz) is the sixth of the Center Theater's mammoth, popular ice carnivals. In terms of titles, it would seem that the management is really getting desperate. But not in terms of customers: almost eight million people have sat in on the skating-and no one has yet considered producing a Toodle-oo, Mr. Ice. Indeed, though all the shows have a strong family resemblance, this season's has more bounce than last...
Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania farmhouse...