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...High-strung Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, two days after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
...troops support an atomic strike. At the moment of Communist attack, the strike would be launched by 600 U.S. fighter planes and light bombers based in 20 attack areas of Western Europe and the United Kingdom. Atomic shells would be fired by the Army's 36 atomic cannons strung along the central European front. Other atomic warheads would be hurled aloft in 75 Matador guided missiles, 28 Honest John and Corporal rockets...
...Harriman had a try at defining it and so did Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams (TIME, Dec. 5). But both of them came over with a strident quality that reduced their effectiveness. Then, one day last week, the best non-moderate Democratic line to date was strung out by a surprising source: the sachem of Tammany Hall...
...eyelids-"only a hysterical woman can do it." Not all these clinical impressions, says Dr. Lovshin, by themselves prove the presence of psychosomatic illness, but they are important clues. Some of the signs he considers particularly clear-cut e.g., the wearers of dark or tinted glasses "are high-strung - everything bothers them, even light when it is not bright." Also suspect is the emotional plight of the woman who calls her husband "the most wonderful man in the world." Said...
...through the mischief you have worked here . . . Because of this I see the hand of Providence in the manner of your going. If ever a man deserved to be drummed out of a country, to be ignominiously deported as an undesirable immigrant or, in the last resort, to be strung up from the nearest lamppost as a renegade, it was you . . . You leave behind a legacy of ... naked hatred among people who were here before you came and who will, by the grace of God, survive the pernicious effects of your ministry...