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...power now rests in four men, some of them brand-new to high councils of any kind, in and out of government. They are the men who currently have Harry Truman's ear on all domestic matters, and some foreign; the men with whom he consults almost daily behind the Executive Office's closed doors. They are a college professor, a lawyer, a banker, and George himself...
This week's offensive, the start of a five-year war, rests on a brand-new plan of attack. Its fundamental premise is that the tsetse does...
...five Securities & Exchange Commissioners last week sat down in their Philadelphia office to pick a new chairman. The choice soon narrowed down to brand-new Commissioner Edward M. Hanrahan and oldtime Commissioner James J. Caffrey...
Swiss farmers, far up in the isolated glens of Valais Canton, had deplored World War II because it suspended Valais' own brand of warfare. Each year until 1939, Valaisan farmers, notorious throughout phlegmatic Switzerland for their hot tempers, had driven 200 stocky, combative cows up to the high pastures just beneath Alpine peaks. There the select 200 plunged into wild battle. They proved their cunning by dodging heavier opponents and victors of previous years. They showed their sportsmanship by stepping back to wait if the opposing cow slipped on the wet grass. The victor, having pushed or frightened away...
...Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten," wrote one Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...