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U.S. Election
Will Be A Big TV Show
TH
Says RODNEY CAMPBELL
New York. influential. The careers of THIS is TV Election two men prove it.
Your in America. Senator Kefauver and More than 15,000,000 Rudolph Halley, who quizzed kets will be ready in living the gangsters on the const- rooms, restaurants and to-coast TV show, have now community centres from zoomed from nowhere to be Maine to California for the No. 2 Democrat possibi- November 4-when a presi- lity for the election and the deni, 32 out of 48 senators, Deputy Mayor of New and 435 M.P.a will be elect-- York. ed.
By June 14,000,000 will be ready-ready to bring an incredible audience of 45,000,000 right inside the convention halls of the De- niocrat & 1 d Republican parties, for the selection of the candidatos.
The election campaign, from start to finish, will be conducted in the sustained. relentless lure of
public opinion.
For in the America of 1952 there are few people in the widely populated areas of the country, where elec- tions are always decided, who cannot find their way to a TV set at short notice.
You have heard how American life stopped for MacArthur's address to Congress, for the Churchill speech, and for the Senate inquiry into organised erime in New York.
Re-
The TV shadow has already fallen across the path of Senu- tor Taft, formerly the publican favourite for the nomination, and still the selection of the Old Guard of the party.
But fer TV he would have stood a gond chance, as most Americans have read that he is sound.
This and other signs of TV's importance have worried come politicians, who see the day when candidates will be selected for "fim star" appeal regardless of private, commli- tee-roum abilities that can never be shown
TV
screen.
TV's other drawback: the cost.
i
01 a
NBC and cas, America's have de- biggest networks, elded parties should pay for their candidates' speech tima.
Dark-horse cand date Harold would
Stasson estimates this
£17,500 run as high as
per speech, so America's laws con- expenditures rolling election will be under some strain.
producer
America's three major coes- to-coast networks revealed The housewives who let they were opening their election coverage to three advertistes en the dishes-pile-up-in-the--"good taste"-busis. sink as they watched Mayor O'Dwyer and the gangsters face the grilling of two un- knowns, Kefauver and Hal- floy, will take, oven, more time off to make up their minds whom they will vote for.
Mr and Mrs Voter read the paper. But statistics show the papers have little influence in presidential elections (75 percent were for Dewey, 95 percent thought Dewey would win. Yet Trumun won).
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THE days of our years are threescore yours and tenz and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,
•
HOW WRONG. IS
yet is their strength lobour and sorrow: for it is seen cut THE PSALMIST?
off, and we fly`dway.—Psalm 90, varap 10.
LD SOLDIERS." `said General Mac- Arthur in hist dramatic. farewell to Con- gree, "simply fade away."
It was always difficult to believe that the flamboyant General could disappear completely from public life. But a few months ago it certainly appeared that, as presidential candidate' at least, the hero of Batan was out of the running..
London Express Service
by CHARLES WINTOUR.
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77 MALAN
77
72
76
70
72
CHURCHILL STALIN ADENAUER ST, LAURENT MOSSADEQ
IT'S AN OLD MAN'S
he
WORLD
The country's second largest
Now, with some prospect electrical equipment
Westinghouse has paid more of a deadlock developing than £1,
to Columbia between the supporters of Broadcasting System for 34 Senator Taft and Gener! hours of TV election coverage,
Ameri- including the party conven- Eisenhower, many tions in Chicago, a 13-week cans consider that General a happy precedent, as "get-out-the-vote" scries, and MacArthur could be the survived his inauguration election night itself.
choice of the Republican by only one month. James Convention. This would be Buchanan was 65 when he an astonishing break with entered the White House:
· a discredited ed that he is willing to run. A leading radio corporation precedent. For General Mac- he retired
mas And Barkley is 74. Recently (Phlico) paid more
than Arthur is already aged 72; man, having failed to National Broad and only one man has £#75,000 to
the ever ter
crisis. he told a boy of 11 that casting Corporation for 40 been inaugurated President General Zachary Taylor. "when you get old enough hours on election coverage, five of the United States who who was 64 at his Inaugu- to vote you can vote for me. hours on election night.
survived I'll still be running for only 16 months of office. public office." Barkley will
then be 84. Surprisingly enough,
Without question, the age
slavery
A second radio corporation had passed his 68th birth ration in 1849, (Admiral) paid £700,000
today. Broad- casting Corporation for the conventions and election night, But flashy "commercialism"
advertisers will be 50
the smaller American
Barkley: 74 General MacArthur is not
sign of retiring at the age of 68.
It Mr Churchill holds "cold" fcrence with the loading- statesmen of the' world he wall", And that many-are; of his own -
generation, Marshal Stolin is 72; Herr Adenauer le 70; the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr St. Laurent, celebrated his 30th birthday. in February; and Dr Malan is 77: While Fre- sident Auriol of France 39. comparative stripling at BT- signor de Gasperi is 71.7
Is out; and the rules for the HAT man.was General the oldest contender for the of men in public life is in- In the Middle East, In strict William Henry Harrison, Presidency. On the Demo- creasing rapidly. It is, of Saud, credited with more than the commercials will probably the ninth President, and he cratic side Vice-President course, true enough that an sons, has already attained be more conservative than the can scarcely be regarded as Alben Barkley has indicat- Gladstone was 83 when he the age of 72; Premier Mos- speeches,
DRUG CRAZE IN SWEDEN
Do
and
From RALPH HEWINS
who was
became Prime Minister for sadeq, of Persia, is the sarpe "the fourth time; he was an
age. Nahns Pastin; leader of exception. Most of the the Egyptian Wofd, is 25, and figures who adorned public Al Maher Pasho, life in this country during Premier until a few weeks ago, the eighteenth and nine- is approaching 70.. teenth centuries dled or dropped out of public life.
at an earlier age than would
be considered normal today.
Cicero said it.
Stockholm, 'Apr. 24. Four restaurants and cafes in, have been discovered saving up
the OCTORS
thoroughfares and stealing opium and disposing and nurses, maln Stockholm
FACING Mr Churchill on have been earmarked as dope- of it in the underground market.
Opposition bench in the intellectuals, students peddling centres, and are Doctors, nurses and chemists William Pitt was only 47
Commons are men who, a few'
have gymnasts, tourists, kept under constant watch. have also been found so lacking when he died, and Charles generations ago, night restauranteurs and traffic Cocaine, heroin and morphine in professional responsibility that
nave peddled James, Fox only 10 years been considered old. There is"
Attlee, who is 68, personnel-and one
coun- are obtainable there, but so far they themselves.
drugs to addicts out of a mis- older. Peel suffered a fatal Chuter Exio, 60, and Ms по oplum has been traced. tess-have been caught in a "Old Town" Stockholm, which taken sense of kindness. Some accident in his 62nd year. 15. And who is their principals,
now is sometimes compared with doctors have even been making Canning died in office, worn bugbear
Montmartre, is another notorious out drug prescriptions
craze
Woolton: 68
record drug. sweeping Sweden. ·
centre of the drug trade. There, alleviate suffering" amongst out at the age of, 57,
walls of the royal addicts. The police
they are under the confess
almost practically powerless to stop it, palace, They have
anti-narcotic obtainable in the no squad. An Inspector states: winding streets.
Supposing "What can we do? we catch somebody unlawfully
The carrying drugs."
culprit simply says he got the stuff from an unknown man in the street, It is almost impossible to get to the source."
Mr
and
Mr.
The
drug any
narrow and
is
тел
have been
A gang specialising in robbery partially of chemists has been broken up by the police. Two arrested and
stolen not only before he had reached 10, Joe tury. Perhaps, ale alttle
arc
of boys and
neadler? enfant terrible of the Socialist Party is a grey-haired gentle- man of 54. Mr Aneurin Bovan.
Without question the ad
of
defence medical DY the twentieth century, vanco
Active has lengthened man's D statesmen were already, no-
even several yeprs Student circles
being another two are wanted. They ticeably older. White Lord Ran- life by
*The carefully watched. have
pub broken into chemists dolph Churchill died in 1805 since the end of the 10th cen specially
lic have grown There are groups
premises and
really bright girls
who imagine they are being drugs but prescription forms, Chamberlain did not drop out
young of the public eye until he was suspicious ont
They may "Parisian" and "existentialist
agree which have been subsequently
men. with Cicero who said: "Just an (influenced by the French writer bought and widely used in 70, when he suffered a stroke.
Bonar Law died at 04.
"I approve of a young man in Jean-Paul Sartre) If they fool Stockholm,
with drugs. Even Aeroplanes,
touch of, age, notably -from Now the life span has ex whom there is
age, stop-gap, the police about
to approve of the old man "alcohol aples," who snoop in gymnasts have been caught at France, are another source.
tended again. At the Boats, in several cases flying of 77 Mr. Churchill has just in whom there some of the restaurants to
if liquor it. Sce
wha Hospitals. especially TB the Panama flog, have also demonstrated that ho. retains flavour of youth. He restrictions are being infringed,
youth strives thus to mingle pills are brought in dòpe,
complete command of his are being seconded to cope with homes, where oplum the outbreak.
Lists of drug tricksters are Cabinet and his party, One of fulness and age may grow old But so far the sometimes, administered to check
being circulated by the his
Ieutenants is in body, but old in spirit he, authorities have, had Hitle coughing, are known to be an- now
principal success. The crazo has so many other source of the Illicit drug police privately to doctors, and Lord Woolton, who shows no tolll nover be" ramifications.
racket. Unscrupulous patients one Swedish countess is included:
As
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