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...Russians like America's Voice? Reported New York's World-Telegram in a memorable headline: RUSSIANS RESTRAIN JOY OVER U.S. BROADCAST. Listeners who were interviewed said that they liked the music, found that the text did "not sound American." But the Voice of America (which has a long way to travel via an insufficient relay station in Munich) was completely inaudible on all but the very best Russian radio sets, which are owned by the very best Communists...
There he discussed matters with Halina, his attractive wife-and with his conscience. (Conductor Rodzinski is a Buch-manite, and believes that he gets "guidance" in all his decisions.) Two hours later, he sent a telegram to the board chairman-and tipped off the press too. He had quit...
...coldly pleased when his enemies call him "the Iron Dictator" and "Herr Vallabhbhai." Enemies and friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue a murder case. He was on his feet when a telegram arrived. He read that his wife had died, put the telegram into his pocket and went on with his argument as if he had never been interrupted...
...York World-Telegram said last week: "The threat of a basketball fix has local colleges so concerned that players are closeted in a hotel room on game days and denied the use of the telephone . . . to keep their players free of association, or even casual contact, with gamblers...
...Some financial writers did not think so. Said Manhattan's World-Telegram: "Everyone knows that a large percentage of the business ... of the Exchange is gambling business. To call it speculation or any other term is but a mere play on words. Haskell's dismissal . . . was a mistake...