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...taxes drive had all but taken over Knight's news columns. In one issue of the News the Page One headline trumpeted Ike's defense of the budget, while the "second front page"-Knight's gambit to inveigle readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
LIKELY KO, forecast a sport-page banner line in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. And indeed, in the first three rounds the outcome seemed certain. The old man had nothing left. Sugar Ray Robinson was a cautious shuffler just two days shy of 37, and he two-stepped away from Gene Fullmer, the brawling, 25-year-old Mormon elder who had taken away his middleweight championship four months ago. At ringside in Chicago, the experts exchanged knowing nods: age had soured Sugar...
When President Eisenhower asked Congress to reduce his budget, most everyone agreed the request was ironic, if not ridiculous. Sinc then, the inherent dangers of the President's plea have become painfully obvious. With the Presidentially blessed banner of budget-cutting waving before them, financial conservatives and international isolationists (usually the same men) have been campaigning to cut the nation's foreign aid and information services...
Just before the opening of the first World War, Percy Wyndham Lewis (who chose to drop his first name) grouped himself with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce as one of "the men of 1914"--four young writers assembled under the vague banner of neo-classicism. Yet Lewis, despite his skills as a painter, satirical writer and critic, has long since fallen into a relative obscurity beside his illustrious contemporaries...
...dirty and discredited banner of McCarthyism which you are trying to raise anew, clothed in the honored respectability of the Harvard University motto. What you are doing seems to me bad for Harvard and for our country. I don't like it, gentlemen. Count me out. Walter B. Raushenbush...