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...Communist and always call myself so," wrote George Bernard Shaw to a Communist candidate for Commons. But, he added, the party had blundered in failing to rub in "the hard fact that in Russia, private enterprise flourishes more than ever." Furthermore, it was opposing the Marshall Plan, "which is for the moment absolutely necessary." Concluded G.B.S.: "The Communist Party knows no more about electioneering than a pig knows of a holiday...
Some 2,000 of Houston's wealthy and others forked over $42 a head to eat imported pate de foie gras in the Shamrock's Emerald Room, rub elbows with the notables, and tour the hotel which McCarthy had built in an effort to make Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria look like a lodging house...
...sideshow world of the Sunday supplements, where pterrifying pterodactyls often rub wings with faded Broadway butterflies, Hearst's giant American Weekly has long been king. But its crown is slipping. After 14 years of trying, This Week magazine has finally passed it in ad revenues. In 1948, according to figures out last week, This Week carried $16,695,628 worth of ads to the Weekly's $16,466,061. (At $24,900 for a four-color page, This Week's ad rate topped all U.S. magazines.*) The Weekly still led in circulation with 9,410,561 copies...
When he chooses, Ben Nicholson paints charming and recognizable still lifes and landscapes. He doesn't always choose. He also happens to be Britain's most revered abstractionist. For conservatives, there's the rub. In a book on Nicholson newly published in England, Art Critic Herbert Read rubs it in. You can't admire the still lifes and abhor the abstractions, admonishes Read, "without confessing to a prejudice that has nothing to do with the essential qualities...
...Indianapolis Grocer Albert Galyan, who started his supermarket with little more than two nickels to rub together and ran it up to a $2,500,000 business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...