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Labor's leaders were resentful at the injection of a world question into a campaign that had been comfortably domestic. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Churchill's proposal as a political "stunt." Prime Minister Clement Attlee faced old Winston's challenge: "We are ready and eager to discuss with Russia, the United States, Canada and all other nations ways and means of dealing with this menace...
...Manhattan, Actor-Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery petitioned the court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Gambler Frank Costello, charging he had obtained it fraudulently. "A cheap hammy stunt for publicity," Costello retorted. "The claims of my vast wealth and income are pure fiction. I am a man . . . with a modest income, and I live conservatively but comfortably...
...with some paste and an artist's deft strokes, superimposed them, with others, on a photograph posed against the background of a hospital room (see cut). For readers who might feel tricked, Incom ran the original photographs inside, along with a diagram showing how they were mated. The stunt paid off. Incom sold a record 260,000 copies, one-third more than its usual circulation. Among the purchasers: Roberto Rossellini, who, in a fine Italian fury, telephoned Incom's office to bellow that Incom's general manager, Sandro Pal-lavicini, was a bastard. Two rival picture weeklies...
...hydrogen-bomb race begins, has tended to obscure his general agreement with the "tough" foreign policy followed by Mr. Bevin and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The proposal was surprising, since the Russians have continually labelled Mr. Churchill as a "warmonger." Mr. Bevin has called the whole idea campaign "stunt...
...Buck Club to the university and the athlete never even sees it. And when I said "entire proceeds" go to helping (through a grant-in-aid) on tuition I meant just that. Even the Club bulletin is supported by a local department store (Roos Brothers) as an advertising stunt...