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...Learn Too Well. Thorez had fallen this far-to the point where he could be sarcastically complimented by a party upstart-because he had learned the Moscow lesson too thoroughly. Of all the French leaders, he had the closest experience of Kremlin policy during World War II. He had been in Moscow when Stalin & Co. abandoned all but a vestige of Marxism in their propaganda and rallied the Russian people with outright Russian nationalism. Thorez, an apt pupil, tried the same line in France, with considerable political success. But the Kremlin views Communist nationalism as an unexportable commodity...
...radio broadcasts (beginning June 1 We the People will be seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh, first-class Hollywood films...
...owners, endowed with an unusual degree of patience and fortitude, received the paper's printing contract that year and have maintained it from that time to this. The following year a press within the building was added to the CRIMSON's facilities, a potent factor in subduing the upstart Harvard Daily News...
...fracas started two months ago. Getty proposed the merger in order to get his money out of the two companies. Skelly wanted no part of the deal, as it would put his big, thriving Skelly Oil under smaller, upstart Sunray. Getty gave Skelly the boot as Mission Corp.'s president...
...nimble way in which upstart Texas Eastern had jumped overnight into the first rank of U.S. public utilities impressed Wall Streeters. But what really made their eyes pop was the way Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. had handled the financing-and thereby reaped fat paper profits for itself and the promoters of Texas Eastern...