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...Sunday Express' Columnist Ephraim Hardcastle, like the Mirror, went after Air Force exaggerations. Hardcastle also charged that General MacArthur's intelligence chief, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had done even more fantastic work with statistics. "If his communiques are to be believed," wrote Hardcastle, Willoughby's intelligence system "is nothing short of miraculous . . . On Dec. 26 he . . . said the Communists had 444,406 troops actually in Korea, of which 277,173 were Chinese and 167,233 North Koreans. I have never seen a wartime report of enemy strength . . . meticulous to the nearest digit...
...long-postponed effort to rearm. Mistake No. 2 involved many people-the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Congress' (including many Republicans), Harry Truman and ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, dancing in a program of false economy through the critical months of '49 and '50 with what Columnist Stewart Alsop last week called the President's "silly optimism" and Johnson's "dark guilt." Certainly Mistake No. 2 had left the State Department, in an old Chinese phrase, armed with "spears of straw and swords...
Though record and sheet-music sales were still climbing, other complaints were being raised in Britain about Puddy-Tat last week. Mocked a columnist in "London's News Chronicle: "Dis is wot de gwown-ups sing, diddums." Disc Jockey Costa had received several mildly abusive letters from anti-puddy-tatters. Sample: "Take a firm grip on your puddy-tat record, face the exit, then bend down with your back to the record that gives you the greatest kick." Asked if he felt any guilt for his part in launching Britain on its current baby-talk rage, Costa looked hurt...
...side. Calling McCarthy's charge that Pearson is a Communist tool an "outrageous big lie," the Washington Post summed up the general feeling of newsmen: "Senator McCarthy is able, by virtue of his congressional immunity, to engage in unrestricted defamation of any radio commentator or newspaper columnist whose opinions displease him . . . The public must demand an end to the kind of thought control that Senator McCarthy is creating through blackmailing advertisers...
...running feud with Columnist Drew Pearson, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy tried to hit Pearson where it hurt-in the pocketbook. In a speech on the floor of the Senate, he urged the U.S. public to protest to the 650 newspapers which carry Pearson's column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson...