Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the Masjumi Party's Natsir, while counseling moderation and patience, had himself turned outspokenly critical of Su karno. "West Irian [West New Guinea] was not a real issue for Sukarno," Natsir wrote in an open letter published in the Sumatra press. "It was only the stepping-stone for a far greater strategical move-the severance of all relations with the Western democracies, and the use of the economic and political consequences of this action to bring Indonesia into the Soviet bloc...
...would leave for Djakarta earlier than he had expected-but only because his wife is expecting a baby. Then he went off to a luncheon party at the Indonesian consulate in Kobe, where he led his guests in singing a ballad called When We Were Young and Gay. His press officer explained: "It's his favorite song...
...Calif, (pop. 3,000), Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 53, and his bride of almost four months, Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant Crosby, 24, are expecting a little wailer in August. Flashed Lolly: "Kathy said that either a girl or a boy would be welcome." The rest of the press caught up with Kathy herself as she filled out an enrollment card at Los Angeles City College, where she will bone up on psychology and sociology while waiting for motherhood...
...lamenting: "I am sorry now that I quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make me as they want me-to save me from my better self. I have not changed my views in the slightest about anything!" His afterthought: "I must make a speech after I sing...
...result, Hoskin, 47, was nearly $50,000 richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer...