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...their work space in the Exhibition Hall of Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, TIME reporters pecked urgently at typewriters from early till late last week, while wire-service tickers clicked, Teletypes clattered and telephones jangled. This was our communications center for the Democratic Convention. Before the week was out, a similar center went into operation in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins, to forward preliminary stories on the Republican Convention. From the two centers will flow some half million words to help our editors not only report but illuminate the news of the conventions...
...make good on that boast, he works a ferocious schedule, often staying up till 4 a.m. dictating letters and memos on every subject of government. He is a tireless reader of the newspapers, and cons the entire Arab world press daily, down to the last movie review. It is one of the world's" misfortunes that, never having lived in a free country, Nasser does not grasp how Western policy is made, and tends to read all sorts of secret motivations and nonexistent attitudes of governments into the comments of the foreign press. He has become excessively sensitive...
...James Thurber has pronounced "the finest union of comedy and music" in his experience. And others have said much the same thing. Shaw, always a canny man with a shilling, would have appreciated more vividly the coarser tribute of the money that is pouring into Lady's clinking till. Tickets are almost impossible to get; scalpers demand as much as $50 for choice seats. Overall, Fair Lady's producers expect to gross some $5,000,000 (including $5,000 a week for Harrison) on their $401,000 production, and the Columbia LP record of the songs should gross...
...take the pictures shown here. Pabel found the turncoats homesick, living on $40 a month each given them by the Chinese Red Cross. Afraid to return to the U.S., however, they still praise Red China's virtues, seem determined to make the best of it among their hosts "till the political climate changes back home...
...Blood Is Red. Once Author Furnas deserts history far genetics, he goes off on some fairly esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter-day commonplaces, such as 1) under equal environmental advantages, Negroes stack up well with whites in IQ tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern...