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...Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...
Other industries were equally jittery last week. Charles A. Cannon, president of the huge Cannon Mills, biggest U.S. towel-maker, called for voluntary price ceilings on cotton goods. This year's short cotton crop (an estimated 38% below 1949) has boosted raw cotton futures to 40.25? a Ib., highest in 30 years. Cannon feared that if cotton cloth prices followed suit, consumers would demand Government controls...
...fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...
...first arrest, New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll signed a full pardon, and another would probably be available soon for Betty Lester, since enfeebled by a stroke. Sixty-four-year-old Cliff Shephard, tearfully pleased with the final triumph of justice, laid aside his broom and towel, thanked the State for excusing the crimes he had never committed...
...only man who seemed completely at ease was the bartender, who was polishing glasses with a towel. I watched Stella's manager rescue her from her group of admirers, and lead her over to the buyers and the fourth estate. The bartender looked up. "Funny thing," he said, "We had a party for some French people here a few weeks ago, and all they drank was champagne...