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...Prouvost launched Match again. For two years it lost money, but gradually he picked up circulation and one of the best staffs in Europe. Now Match, has a well-paid, 120-man editorial staff and charges the highest advertising rate in France: $4,000 for a black and whit page, $5,140 for color. In 1951, still searching for a daily for himself, Prouvos bought control (49%) of Le Figaro, let its editors run the paper with a free hand and stays far in the background...
...growth of Communist influence within the government. Said a Washington spokesman last week: "If the Guatemalans paid the United Fruit Co.'s full $16 million claim tomorrow and decorated every last United Fruit official with the Order of the Quetzal, we wouldn't be one whit less concerned about the danger of Communism in Guatemala...
...comfort. Bogie may bait and bully his betters, but he can act, and he is reliable. His name pulls at the box office. After his years in gangster parts, his appearance on the screen automatically seems to lend a story impact and excitement. Movie fans do not care a whit if he (unlike Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck) is killed during the course of a picture. Cab drivers, burglars and women admire him. And on top of all this, as an Academy-Award winner (for his part in African Queen), he also lends a film an aura of distinction...
...also hopelessly impractical, for, while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore...
...inside left Whit MacQuarrie scored the first goal at 20:50 of the first period. He picked up a loose ball about 40 feet out to the left of the cage and drove it into the upper right hand corner. Briggs was unable to touch...