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...forth from Kaliningrad (née Konigsberg) on the cruiser Ordzhonikidze, Scotland Yard completed its survey of more than 200 Russian and satellite exile groups, to make sure that none of their more ardent spirits would have a chance to take a potshot at the visitors...
...Fable. Author Frank (Five Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher Cerf had praised Fable's lucidity, Howe added: "If Bennett Cerf understands it, I'm sure that everyone else will...
...recent visit to New York, Atwood told about the most troublesome story he had ever worked on for TIME. It happened near Cordova, Alaska, and involved two boys in a rowboat, who had taken a potshot at an "empty" shed on shore. The shed turned out to be packed with dynamite and was blown skyhigh. Atwood received a long list of questions about the incident. But Cordova was 250 miles and a three-day boat trip away. So he relayed the wire to a friend there, sent the answers back to New York. Discrepancies in the story turned...
Halsey, Stuart's President Harold Stuart has seldom missed a chance to take a potshot at Morgan Stanley; in fact, he was an important Government witness in the antitrust case* against 17 investment bankers (TIME, March 31). With his help, the U.S. hoped to prove that Morgan Stanley and its Wall Street colleagues long monopolized the securities business by the negotiated-bid methods which Stuart objected to. But Stuart was of little help, and Morgan Stanley steadfastly denies such charges. It points out that it has invited Stuart to join in several of its negotiated deals, only...
...although well-dug-in Chinese Reds sat on top of Big Nori, South Koreans of the ist R.O.K. Division moved up to occupy Little Nori. For five weeks-up to last week-the two hostile forces lived in what passes for peace on the front lines, occasionally taking a potshot or lobbing over a mortar shell and getting a round or two in return. Both the Reds and the ROKs spent much time and energy improving their caves, tunnels, trenches, bunkers...