The Letter and Attlee and the Press Debate
News notes include Tucson theater closing night for The Letter and Warren Austin hosting Twenty Questions with Peiping delegates. Attlee to fly to Washington sparks talk of an umbrella, while Mussolini on press freedom is cited and TV color controversy grows with FCC power debates. The piece lampoons Pravda, praises the U.S. Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, and notes Colorado dust and Austrian election quirks.
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Clement Attlee
Washington
Attlee
National
Mae
Campaign costs curb senatorial bids says Gillette
Chairman Gillette of the Senate subcommittee on privileges and elections warns that rising campaign costs will bar men of limited means from running for the Senate. He notes that well financed loyal friends can still help some candidates succeed.
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Cuba
Kore
Gillette
Senate
Kansas City Times
Spelvin confronts a spy ladder in 1950s tale
George Spelvin, American, reads of Professor Odium Odium Odium Odium as a traitor and a hero of government, and he phones the FBI. The agent explains arrests for traitors are not possible. Spelvin vents about pensions and GI benefits while planning to enlist as a colonel after punching Dr Ludwig Traum.
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Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Russia
Jacob Malik
Kansas City Star
Ey Westorces
George
Spelvin
Onus Odlum
National Economic Sources Planning Commission
FBI
Professor Odlum
Harvard Law
Weenie
Mr. Spelvin
Bureau of Zymology
Parents’ Refund Authority
Children’s Compensation Bureau
Union of Toilers, Consumers and Stockholders
Elm and Spruce
Odium
Washington
Henry Wallace School of Economics
Senate Finance Committee
Navy
Korea
Fifth and
Jackson
George Spelvin
Amercan
Ludwig Traum
International Ajax
Doktor
Traum
Medical Corps
Mary Spelvin
King Features
Country Club
Couch
Harry Vaughan
Rassling
Try And Stop Me by Bennett Cerf quiz recap
A compact sample from Bennett Cerf’s 1950 quiz collection features witticisms about literary figures and trivia. Q questions pair with playful answers like Virginia Woolf, Fadiman, and Woollcott, with a final note on distribution by King Features.
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Bennett
B. Edelstein
Boston
Roanoke
Virginia Woolf
A. Fadiman
Fadiman
Gilbert K
A. Chesterton
Henry Seidel Canby
Devoto
Alexander
A. Woollcott
R. Sherwood
Bennett Cerf
King Features
Voodoo and politics in Haiti and war talk toast
In Haiti the author mingles exposure to voodoo with casual travel observations and personal beliefs, noting the drumbeats and religious practices amid poverty and limited services. The piece shifts to amateur rainmaking debates, examining cloud seeding and government control prospects. It then critiques U.S. Korea War diplomacy, arguing Washington lacks clear leadership and overestimates restraint while allies fear European defense gaps.
Acheson Reveals Chinese Aid to Korean War Forces
David Washington reports on Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s revelation that Communist China aided North Korea before and during the Korean War. He notes Chinese Army movements from South China to Manchuria and across the borders, the UN’s limited denouncements, and questions why information was withheld. The piece underscores China’s role and the need for clarity on allied responses and UN actions.
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Korea
North Korea
Washington
Statent
Europe
America
MacArthur
David
Dee
Peter’ Gaye
China
North Forest
Russia
United Nations
Dean Acheson
Mr. Acheson
Ko-ree
South China
Manchuria
Manchurian
Lawre
United Tions
United 3
U. N
W. B
Chee OC Watt
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Warren Austin
Gen. Wu
Peiping
Lake Success
Orient
Tucson Little Theater
Far East
Dave
Herbert Mathews
New York Times
Benito Mussolini
Pravda
Isvesztia
U. S
Congress
White House
Truman
George &. Sokolsky
NRA
Supreme Court
Brannan
Oscar Ewing
FCC
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
Tucson
Los Angeles
Paul Robeson Jr
U.N
Young Robeson
Currier & Ives
Austria
Port AU Prince
Haiti
States
Papa Damballah
Papa ‘Legha
Papa Legba
Mama
Papas
South
el Morocco
Freud
Jung
C. Ruark
Little Joe
Ada
Decatur
Papa Eigee
Papa Dambailah
Truxman
New York
Bernard Vonnegut
Indianapolis Star
Naling
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