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Cinemactor Robert Mitchum was indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury on two counts (possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws). Meanwhile, his studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...
Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
...most bullish influence was the growing certainty that production and profits would not be hamstrung by a rash of strikes. Following the lead of General Motors (TIME, June 7), industry was busily granting a third round of wage increases. General Electric, which had cut prices and tried to hold the line, gave up-and handed out a 9 to 15? an hour raise. Firestone Tire & Rubber settled for 11?, United Aircraft for 10 to 20?. The Aluminum Co. of America offered 9 to 13?. Chrysler had followed G.M.'s lead, and now Kaiser-Frazer came across with 14.4?; Briggs...
...Rash. When De Gasperi outlined the points of his new government's program in the Chamber of Deputies, Communist deputies shrilled a dissenting antiphon. The Premier said that he would maintain law & order; they shouted: "How many innocent workers have been murdered? " De Gasperi pledged cooperation with ERP; the Communists screamed "Imperialism...
Communists did more than talk. A new rash of Communist-inspired strikes broke out in Italy. In the north, dairy and ricefield workers struck. Sicilian dockworkers and Sardinian coal miners threatened to join. In the Red fortress of Bologna, Communists called a 24-hour general strike. The objects of Communist parliamentary and trade-union tactics: to trip up the government as it inched toward stability...