Word: turnabout
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...Foreign Office's sudden turnabout kicked up a storm in the British press, not so much because of Scientist Powell, but because of what it revealed about the startling laxity of security in the oft-burned Foreign Office. A specialist in cos mic radiation, Powell has a record of affiliation with Communist-line causes. As vice president of the British Peace Com mittee, a Communist propaganda front, he so distinguished himself in its activities that he was nominated to the bureau of the Communist-manipulated World Peace Council (he declined). He twice had visited Atomic Spy Dr. Alan Nunn...
...election year, Harry Truman is not the man to take any chance of losing such a bloc of small businessmen's votes, especially since consumers didn't seem to care or know enough about the bill to object. To try to justify his turnabout, Harry Truman said that "Fair Trade laws are no cure-all for the problems of small retailers," urged Congress to make a thorough investigation of the whole matter. Since Congress has adjourned, it can't act until after election...
...Turnabout. In Boston and New York, steel from Europe, which recently brought prices as much as 50% over U.S. ceilings, is lying in warehouses waiting for buyers. Customers are becoming more selective. Said a Southern dealer: "Up to a few months ago they would take a substitute bar size, whereas now they will walk away if you don't have the right ones...
...only the warehousemen are talking about the turnabout in the market; steelmakers themselves are offering no price concessions. Nevertheless, new patterns are emerging. Birmingham reports that Northern mills are sending agents into the South looking for business as a hedge against expected surpluses. Giant Bethlehem Steel Corp. has sent teams of salesmen to the Chicago area hunting up trade. In Detroit, warehousemen are offering to absorb freight costs to lure buyers in the Gary and Cleveland markets...
...Plato. Offstage, the Laughtons live a quietly busy life in a small (for Hollywood), eleven-room house that has little ground of its own but, happily, faces on 50 acres of a neighbor's orchards. Elsa works steadily at her non-paying job with Hollywood's Turnabout Theater (TIME, May 24, 1948), and shuttles between nightclub engagements in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Charles has rearranged their living room into a studio where he trains the dedicated and largely unknown young actors of the Charles Laughton Players. When he goes to bed, he surrounds himself with books (from Proust...