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...worn man, seriously ill, last week quietly injected himself into Washington's wild-swinging brawl over the State Department. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' leading expert on foreign policy, had been absent from the Senate floor for six weeks. Slowly recuperating from a lung operation (TIME, Oct. 10), he was forced to spend long hours in bed every day. While he was out of action, and partly because of his absence, the nation's bipartisan foreign policy had gone...
...testimony of Historian Jacques Barzun (who does his teaching at Columbia): "[Teachers] look like any other Americans; they are no more round-shouldered than bank presidents, they play golf . . . they marry and beget children, laugh and swear and have appendicitis in a thoroughly normal way. They are far less absent-minded than waiters in restaurants...
...suggestions were about to be approved when Charles R. Brynteson '50 suddenly told the Council two of the four Harvard members of the joint committee had been absent when the recommendations were draw up and asked that the proposals he withdrawn. Broward Craig '50, chairman of the Committee...
...collective weakness of the supporting east was obvious in the final act, which contains the longest and most important section of the play from which Lear is absent. The main purpose of the act in the build up a feeling that there has been enough suffering, so that the later hanging of Cordelia and the expiration of Lear will have a more powerful tragic effect. The actors fail to build up this feeling of satiety, so that Lear's entrance, bearing Cordelia, does not have the powerful impact is should have, until Devlin rebuilds the structure himself...
...Waddling out of a meeting of the Rules Committee next day, Ohio's portly Republican Clarence Brown cheerfully admitted that he had voted with committee Dixiecrats to keep the bill from reaching the floor. Not that he was against FEPC, of course, he just wanted to give two absent Republican committeemen a chance to vote on it. Also, "I wanted to protect the Speaker," he added piously...