Word: hooverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace, where he became director in 1952. His goal at 107-year-old Mills is "tough minds," a sharp upgrading of liberal arts. Last week Mills announced the end of its B.S. degree and home economics courses. Rothwell's aim for his girls...
...SECRET LIFE WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, shrilled the red headlines across the front page of the evening New York Post (circ. 351,700). On Page 3, beneath a black version of the same incendiary invitation, were pictures of the principals involved: the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a bachelor and a pudgy 64, and four-times-wed Post Publisher Dorothy Scruff, a slim 56. But anyone who swallowed the Post's heavily scented lure last week in the hope of finding a spicy journalistic feast was doomed to disappointment. The flavor was all in the hook...
Dolly charged that Hoover had discussed the impending series with one of her advertisers in an attempt to bring pressure on the Post to kill the story. Hoover told the advertiser, said Dolly, that the Post was angry because the FBI had once forced the dismissal of Nancy Wechsler, wife of Post Editor James Wechsler, from a Washington job. Indignantly, and at exhaustive length that spared neither the reader nor Nancy, Publisher Schiff reported that Mrs. Wechsler had belonged to the Young Communist League for a short time years ago but had never been fired from a Government...
...afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...
Blood & Paper. Assisted covertly at first, then openly by imperial troops, the Boxers attacked along the yo-mile line from Peking to Tientsin. They blooded themselves with wholesale massacres of the missionaries in isolated places, and marched on the cities. In Tientsin a young U.S. mining engineer named Herbert Hoover built stout barricades of wool, silk, sacks of peanuts and whatever other merchandise lay at hand, and the foreigners withstood the assault. The real fight was at Peking, the Imperial City...