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...million for general congressional expenses. There was $20,000 to provide a new trunk and two wooden footlockers (an old custom) for each Representative; $2,000 for ice; funds for subsidized (50?) haircuts; a $132,400 increase in the stationery allowance and a $700,000 increase in telephone and telegraph expenses; $199,500 for the Capitol Botanic Garden; $20,000 to complete the frieze around the inside of the Capitol dome. By the time the Senate adds its own expenses-the House always politely leaves that blank for the Senate to fill in-the total bill will hit close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Economy Begins Elsewhere | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...American Telephone & Telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...House on Telegraph Hill (20th Century-Fox) suggests that a woman who survived the horrors of Belsen could be unhinged by a pair of scheming San Franciscans. Though the script struggles manfully to prove the point, it winds up as just another pretentious Hollywood excursion into psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Valentina Cortesa, borrowing the identity of a dead fellow Pole in the concentration camp, comes to the U.S. to claim her friend's child and fortune. She marries the boy's guardian and moves with him to the house on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the boy and his ice-blonde governess are already installed. Soon Valentina is asking herself a familiar Hollywood question: "Is my husband trying to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Quietly, Nicholson packed his bags and departed for Bagdad. Correspondent Delmer got off a last jab at the government as he bought air passage to Beirut. He handed the telegraph office a message to his office, knowing it would be relayed to Iranian officials. Wrote Delmer: "I called the Persian government oil-grabbers and contract-breakers, and I still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cops in the Lobby | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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