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Progressive. For President, wealthy San Francisco Lawyer Vincent Hallinan, who recently spent five months in jail for contempt of court during the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges; for Vice President, Mrs. Charlotta Bass, 62-year-old former publisher of a California Negro newspaper. Candidate Hallinan, whose followers favor immediate disarmament and "cooperation" with Russia, last week asked Harry Truman for the same intelligence briefing given Adlai Stevenson and offered Dwight Eisenhower. He got no answer. Hallinan's predecessor as Progressive candidate in 1948 was Henry A. Wallace, who has repudiated the party as a Communist front...
France's President Vincent Auriol entered the picture when the presidential train stalled on a hill during a tour of the war-damaged section of eastern France. While waiting for a second engine to come to the rescue, an onlooker took the opportunity to introduce a tiny citizen to his admiring President...
...straight 14½ hours. Last week the aging (48) groaner co-starred with TV Veteran Bob Hope on an all-night show to raise the $500,000 still needed to send the U.S. Olympic team to this summer's games at Helsinki, Finland. Conceived by Sport Writer Vincent Flaherty of the Los Angeles Examiner, and obviously patterned after the annual Milton Berle TV marathon for the Cancer Fund, the Hope & Crosby show was a mixture of guest stars (Ezio Pinza, Phil Harris, Martin & Lewis), appeals for money, and the reading of interminable lists of contributors...
Which Is the Flower? Manning constantly worries about his ship. He hates to linger at the captain's table (likely guests on the maiden voyage: Margaret Truman, the Vincent Astors, United Aircraft's Fred Rentschler and wife, the U.S. Lines' President John Franklin). Says he: "I get uneasy wondering what's going on up top." Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits. One of them is to lean around a vase of flowers and say to the lady passenger opposite: "I can hardly tell which is the flower." Says Manning...
Best Plays (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Angel Street, with Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn...