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Joint Chuckle. Reaction to Khrushchev's naked renege ranged from sneers to near tears. "On again, off again, Finnigin," shrugged Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. KHRUSHCHEV MAKES FOOL OF HIMSELF, headlined London's tabloid Daily Mirror. "Responsibility for evading [a summit] meeting with the Security Council rests squarely with the Soviet Union," lamented the Times of India...
Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboodiripad cried out-as had Khrushchev at the time of the Hungarian revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down...
Long Island's Newsday, the thriving (circ. 272,441) suburban tabloid that ordinarily gives itself mostly to news, conventional features, and a fat assortment of advertising pages, last week handed its readers something new in its 18-year history: a thick supplement containing a new, brain-twitching book by a famed writer. The book's title: Tyranny Over the Mind. Author: English-born Novelist Aldous (Brave New World) Huxley...
Although his only previous stint as a strictly political cartoonist was with the tabloid New York Star (nee PM), which died after seven fitful months in 1949, Mauldin has always honed an edge on his best drawings, considers his war cartoons as being "95% editorial." Says Mauldin: "The Post-Dispatch has a strong tradition of independence for its staff. I have a reputation for raising hell in cartoons, and there are not many newspapers that will stand still for that...
...banker, the richest man in town, respected by all and loved by his wife Sarah and their children, David, Mary, Jonathan, Ruth and Rebecca. They eat a Thanksgiving turkey, talk about God and gratitude. Then the disasters strike. Playwright MacLeish stage-manages them deftly with a tabloid editor's eye for sordid shock effect and a flexible poetic line to match. Two drunken soldiers blurt out news of the death of David; a news cameraman snaps a picture of J.B. and Sarah while a reporter is telling them that Mary and Jonathan have been killed in an auto accident...