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Crucial, as well, is maximum aid and encouragement to Japan, for as democracy's best advertisement in the Far East, our former enemy can influence many wavering states toward America. The defeat of the Japanese Communists, for instance, made a very large splash in Asiatic puddles. By Japan's example, then, and by Point IV and rigorous collective security assurances, typified by America's stake in Korea, the Stevenson administration can effectively counter the promises and the force of Communism...
...with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash of china and the splash of wine from wavering bottles...
Advertising revenue also was down; it was well below 1948, the year before Ruppel came in. But recently Ruppel ran into trouble from a different source. Last February, with a splash of full-page newspaper ads, Collier's touted a big exclusive: the inside story of "Mr. Big," described as the boss of "New York's sprawling, brawling, racket-ridden waterfront." In two articles, Collier's Star Crime Reporter Lester Velie identified "Mr. Big" as William J. McCormack, trucking, concrete and stevedoring contractor...
...atomic bomb." The canvases were almost as explosive as the bomb itself: furious fireballs of bright colors and bold contrasts. Prizewinning explosion: a churning blue and green fantasy by a 27-year-old artist named Gianni Dova. At the top of his painting was a dripping black splash with a fiery red spot. The impression he hopes to give, says Dova, is that the splash is alive, and will "continue to . . . grow until it overwhelms everything...
Last week, after a sell-out first performance, the splash almost swamped Director Rosenstock with criticism. None of the critics doused Wozzeck itself; their damp words were reserved for City Opera's new English-language production...