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...greatest single factor which the Conservatives have to thank for their optimism is their own Government's perspicuity in having called a snap election this spring. Sir Anthony Eden need not by law have risked his newly-acquired office until October, 1956. But the talking points of existing prosperity and probable talks with Russia "at the summit" were too good to pass by. Besides, the Labour party was just at that time embarrassingly split by internal feuds. Its moderate wing, represented by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, had been driven rightwards by attacks from the Bevanites on the left...
...perennially powerful Holy Cross baseball squad will attempt to snap the Crimson's eight-game winning streak in Worcester today. Weather permitting, the non-league contest will begin on the Crusaders' Fitton Field...
...Julius La Rosa (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden ax. Flame-haired Songstress Marion Marlowe drew a fast $36,000 bid from Ed (Toast of the Town) Sullivan, also of CBS, who is always eager to snap up his rival's discarded aces; The Mariners, a Negro-white quartet (their last song for Godfrey: I Didn't Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke...
...Buffet won the prestigious Critics Award when he was only 20, and his reputation has risen ever since. Today he turns out oils, painted in depressing greys, black, drab greens and dun brown at a rate even a house painter would envy. As rapidly as he paints them, collectors snap them up, at prices ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 each...
FROZEN ORANGE-JUICE prices will go up because of the recent cold snap in Florida and pessimism about next year's crop. Two big producers, Birds Eye and Libby, McNeill & Libby, have just boosted wholesale prices 5? per dozen six-oz. cans, and the rest of the industry may follow suit. Retailers are expected to pass on the increase...