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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps last week gave a smile of welcome for his new granddaughter. He also had an unaccustomed smile, almost as warm, for British industry...
Tribune needed Foot. The weekly, spokesman for a highly placed Socialist group, boasted the best ministerial connections. But Fleet Street had long gossiped that Tribune's position was the weakest of the "big five" weekend papers.* Sir Stafford Cripps, co-founder of Tribune in 1937, had long since stopped backing it. It had dipped into the red, and barely held its 18,000 circulation. The next six months might settle Tribune's fate...
...July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn't even listed among Billboard's eight top male...
...than his own trousers. Four times in the past year of hope I have been forced to buy a new pair of braces, and after each occasion the braces have broken irretrievably within three months. I have tried them plastic and I have tried them un-plastic. Can Sir Stafford Cripps, on whom all our hopes are now fixed, tell me what...
...Stafford couldn't or didn't, but the Times had a word to offer. "Peace of mind," it said, "is virtually unattainable unless a man has what the psychologists call Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl, or trouser confidence. The four freedoms are a hollow mockery if our braces are going to be bursting all the time...