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...Robert Smith soon made it plain that he was as concerned with a practical fear of possible "business" boycotts as he was with moral principles. Conceding that Partlow was an able employee who had never "slanted" his copy. Smith & aides promised Partlow his job back if only he would swear that the charges were not true...
Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily...
...Answered Rodney: "That's none of your concern. What does that have to do with a passport to cover a sport event?" Mrs. Shipley thought it had plenty to do with it, since the "spirit of" the McCarran Internal Security Act bans passports for Communists. If Rodney would swear he was not a Red, she said, he could get his passport. When he declined to do so, Mrs. Shipley rejected his application. Said she: "The problem involved is not the Olympic Games but whether or not he is a Communist...
...other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria's postwar days. Arriving from Moscow, he took over from homegrown Red Traicho Kostov, made Kostov his No. 2 man. Soon Kostov...
...idea of having in the White House a first lady who "smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly [and] until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties" [TIME, June 2] is going to cost Eisenhower a lot of votes...