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None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You...
In the first starveling years, while Silverman feuded with the powerful theatrical houses of Shubert and Albee, actors shied away from his columns (if they bought space, they might get fired). But in dingy dressing rooms and rocking tourist sleepers, Variety became the hometown paper of every vaudevillager whose slanguage...
Last week, as some republics still shied at the idea, U.S. officials talked about bringing up the topic of Argentina in the world assembly by invoking Article II of the United Nations Charter (which permits the UNO Assembly to discuss any problem relating to the maintenance of peace). The threat...
Recognition was in the works. But the Renner regime seemed unable to please everybody. On U. S. and British advice it shied away from a thinly veiled Russian scheme to cut in on the big Zistersdorf oil fields. Last week Red Army officers reportedly took over at Zistersdorf, booted the...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line...