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...vote was a resounding slap at Lewis. Emphasizing the meaning of the council action, Green announced that $60,000 in advance dues was being returned to U.M.W., that any further preconvention move must come from Lewis...
...Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into an aria from Tannhäuser...
Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
Back of the Hand. Developing this thesis, Freshman Luce took a bold slap at President Roosevelt. Said she: "Until 1937, Franklin Roosevelt was the world's outstanding isolationist. For years he was famed for his blithe indifference to the oneness of the world in every chancellery in Europe and Asia. His public approval, for example, of Munich is a matter of public record...
...said Nelson, the consumer got more goods and services than he had ever had before-except for slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack to take up in manpower and materials; civilian production will nosedive as war production rises. Overall per-capita consumption will probably be off 20% from last year...