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William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...
...civil wars ended and the zealous politruk went back to school. The party had its eye on him. In 1922 he entered Moscow's Higher Technological School. While he studied mechanical engineering, he kept on practicing political technique. He became boss of the school's Communist Party cell. Then, by a chance not clearly known, Student Malenkov met and impressed Stalin, who whisked him from mechanical to political engineering...
...Singapore, Police Chief Alastair McEwan had been tipped off that Westerling would turn up "very soon" to buy arms and sign up recruits for the Heavenly Host. McEwan arrested the swashbuckling outlaw for entering the British Crown colony illegally. Singapore police carelessly put him into a prison cell with an Indonesian student named Haris Porkas. Half an hour later, Porkas was carried out with a broken jaw. Westerling said that Porkas had provoked the fight. When Westerling offered his hand, Porkas spat...
...idea eventually pays off in a blaze of heroics and dynamite. But not until Kelly has gotten himself out of a picturesque Black Hand cell: a butcher's icebox where piles of homemade bombs nestle among the sides of beef...
...Drew Pearson's column in nearby Louisville's Courier-Journal last month. Pearson's Washington "Merry-Go-Round" told a "shameful, shocking story" of thousands of juvenile delinquents who were being imprisoned with hardened criminals. As a horrible example, he cited Taylorsville's own "two-cell, log jail" where, he said, "a 13-year-old runaway boy was locked up . . . for four days with a screaming, laughing maniac...