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Lonely, embittered by disregard, Gorer decides to revenge himself on the world in one fell swipe. He sets out to forge a Holbein. The forgery is successful, critics hail the new discovery, and the picture is sold for 40,000 guineas. Then Gorer triumphantly reveals that he forged the painting...
After the White House made such a hash out. of an egg-bald attempt to swipe the chef who works for the French Ambassador to London, staffers admit that something is cooking again-but very slowly on the back burner, so as not to stir up a stew. The announcement will be made soon that the White House has a new cook. In the opinion of some who have dined at the White House table, the change is none too soon...
Taking advantage of a Radio Moscow broadcast in honor of his 70th birthday, Russian Author Ilya Ehrenburg aimed an oblique swipe at his government's persistent but unadmitted discrimination against Jews. Said Ehrenburg: "I am proud of the fact that I am an ordinary Russian writer. But my passport [for travel inside Russia] states that I am not a Russian but a Jew. As long as even one anti-Semite exists in the world, I shall proudly reply to any question as to my nationality...
Thus, in a Look Magazine excerpt from his new book, Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman this week explains his longstanding dislike of Adlai Stevenson, and at the same time, takes a neatly timed swipe at Stevenson's chances for the 1960 nomination. He agreed to support Stevenson in 1952, he says, but he was sorry afterward. Stevenson's campaign, Truman claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently...
...Struggle, etc. raided a shop operated by one Anna Lazaryeva, discovered $9,250 worth of yarn, 150 sweaters and $7,500 in cash; a few doors away a second shop was discovered producing 100 blouses a day. The operators, said Krokodil, suffer from no shortage: state textile-industry employees swipe huge amounts of wool from government plants, resell it at a tidy profit to black-marketeers...