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Persian leftists charged that the rebels were getting arms from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up a tribal revolt which would further weaken the Teheran Government, make it still more vulnerable to Russian pressure...
Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston created a little stir of his own in the world of couture. Confided the Mayor to a visitor: on his back was a splendid tattoo of a schooner in full sail. The word spread like wildfire. The press clamored for a look. Then the Mayor, who is still under sentence for using the mails to defraud, became unapproachable. Boston wondered...
Geologists shrugged at all the stir. Nature would wipe out the falls anyway in a scant 12,000 years...
Last week a better, bolder painting caused a stir on Manhattan's 57th Street. Belgian Paul Delvaux' Temptation of St. Anthony-painted for a Hollywood competition (TIME, Mar. 25)-was drawing tiptoe crowds to the Knoedler Galleries...
...they have settled down, conspicuously unheralded, their surreptitious coming noticed, if at all, like the flight of birds at night when some stir betrays their passage. On this airfield have been glimpsed, for tantalizing moments, the sinews which move the mighty Soviet hand whose political fingers probe, by diplomacy or conspiracy, into every cranny of the world-the back alleys of Buenos Aires, the palaces of Paris, the bottle-towered temples of Burma...