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...associates, ex-Editorialist Herbert Bayard Swope, Banker John Hancock, Wall Streeter Ferd Eberstadt. Wai. lace, it developed, had based his criticism largely on the advice of a friend of his in UNRRA, who was now abroad. Baruch showed him, point by point, where he was wrong. The upshot of the conference: Hauser and Swope would draft a retraction for Wallace to sign...
...Democrats are campaigning for remains a mystery. Weighed down by incessant squabbles among their own ranks, the Democrats are as yet unable to present a united front. The Southern bloc resists P.A.C. infiltration. And Truman's storm buddies Snyder, Allen, and Clifford find embarrassment in open discussions. The upshot of this shadow-boxing by the two parties is, as Mr. Schlesinger says, a "no-man's land where in the flickering half-light the donkey is indistinguishable from the elephant...
Sally Rand's time-honored fandangling and bubble-cuddling suddenly struck San Francisco police as indecent. They arrested her - twice in one week. Topping off the priceless publicity, the judge took a look for himself. Upshot: charges dismissed...
...otherwise routine little wartime musicomedy is about life & love in the U.S. Coast Guard-i.e., another late-arriving salute to the services, featuring singing Tar Alfred Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled...
...upshot was that the President got exactly what he wanted: Stalin's definite pledge to come in on a definite date (August 15, said the best available sources). Now, whatever the political implications to be faced later in Asia, the U.S. armies would not have to help the Chinese dispose of Japan's formidable forces in Manchuria, and Japan's last chance to prolong the war had disappeared...