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...Guadalcanal, the pet puppies of the G.I.s are now wild dogs; the British colonial officials again dress for dinner. At Espiritu Santo, once a huge U.S. base, now a placid French colony again, the natives wear T-shirts and tailor-made shorts. Said the chief of police when Michener departed: "You must be very sorry to leave so happy an island. Where everybody dances and gets drunk and the chief of police never makes a fuss...
Inside the Soviet Union, anti-U.S. propaganda has suddenly broadened. Formerly Russian attacks were focused on "Wall Street imperialists" and "ruling circles " Now the whole U.S.seems to be the target A new tailor-made history of the Western allies' intervention in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution is shrilled on the radio-"Our people will never forget [these] bloody crimes!" Also World War I is being refought in the press: the U S has been Russia's enemy "invariably'' nee 1917, and it plotted to "bleed Russia white during...
Died. Benjamin Stolberg, 59, labor historian (The Story of the C.T.O., Tailor's Progress, a study of the I.L.G.W.U.), of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An anti-Stalinist leftist, Stolberg aimed his savage epigrams at both Republicans and the New Deal, management & labor...
John Orlando Pastore, 43, stubby (5 ft. 4 in.) son of an Italian tailor and the first Italo-American ever elected to the Senate. A product of the efficient Rhode Island Democratic machine developed by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, cocky but cautious John Pastore succeeded McGrath as governor in 1945 when McGrath became U.S. Solicitor General, is now taking over the Senate seat McGrath gave up last year. He once told a group of foreign editors, "Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union and I am the smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction...
...Thing had an inexorable calliope-style tune, utterly undistinguished and not even new. Charles Grean of RCA Victor's own popular records staff had merely borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...