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...relieved by the Gallup poll report that the Republicans had fallen to second place in U.S. favor (TIME, March 10). Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. roasted his colleagues by inserting an editorial from the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram in the Record. Said the editorial: "It is high time an aroused public opinion again reminded the Republican Party why it was chosen at the polls last November. ... In an atmosphere of political pussyfooting, the Republicans have been eyeing...
...plump Arthur Creech-Jones, Colonial Secretary, tried to placate the members. He had no authority to grant a reprieve; but he would ask the King's representative, the Gold Coast's Governor. "Tell him!" boomed several M.P.s. Red-faced, Creech-Jones promised to send the Governor a telegram, advising him of the House's "very strong feeling in all quarters...
Plainly flustered, he stood for a moment as if expecting more debate. Instead came a sharp thunderclap from Churchill: "This is a matter of life and death; will the Colonial Secretary not get off and send his telegram now?" Creech-Jones retreated, a few minutes later slipped out and sent his telegram. (Result: the execution was postponed and Gold Coast Governor Sir Alan Burns huffily threatened to resign over this kibitzing by the House...
...notice. "Jilted Freshman desires 120 ibs, of American womanhood" last September, he little expected the results that ensued. Six beauties and two Olobe photographers were on hand when he entered his room that night, and the resulting picture was flashed across the country. The fun ended with a telegram from his father...
...Canada's frigid Fort Churchill, on an inspection tour as chairman of the U.S.-Canada defense board, Fiorello La-Guardia slipped into a furry hat and posed for cameramen (see cut). Then he hurled a $500,000 legal snowball at the New York World-Telegram. He disliked some recent editorials on his mayoralty, he said, and was suing for libel...