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...theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
...Bargain-Counter Security. While Douglas labored, the Senate debate continued. "If the members of Congress have a shred of courage and patriotism left," said Indiana's Isolationist William E. Jenner, "they will lay down an ultimatum to the President demanding either a declaration of war or the bringing back of American G.I.s to home shores." Cried Fellow Isolationist George Malone of Nevada: "We should withdraw General Eisenhower from his military headquarters in Europe...
...great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books. The couple are settling down to true happiness securely based on freedom from thought...
...There is not a shred of actual evidence," Charlie Wilson told an electrical dealers' convention, "that bigness has been an evil force either economically or socially. No company and no industry has yet been big enough to bring enough goods to enough people. To fulfill its promises and deserve its power, industry must continue to grow." There are few large industrial concerns today anywhere near monopoly proportions, said he. In fact, many small businesses, built around closely held patents, "come much closer to having a monopoly...
...State Department and known to Acheson," and McCarthy had not yet produced the name of a single card-carrying Communist. In a bitter, shouting uproar on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Scott Lucas declared: "The time has come to call a spade a spade . . . Not a shred of evidence has been presented-not a shred...