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Love from Harry. There was no genuine business before the national commit tee. The occasion was just an excuse to give the fall campaign a rousing sendoff, to hold informal clinics on the health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...
...Friends in the Game." The commit tee was curious about the help that Grace & Grace had given loan applicants. A Pelham, N.Y. builder named Warren Schaller who applied for a loan guarantee in 1949 waited six months for FHA approval. The FHA granted the guarantee, said Schaller, two months after he hired Grace & Grace on the advice of "friends in the game." But Grace said the sequence of events had no significance ; the handling of the application was routine. The committee cited another builder whose application for a $325,000 guarantee had been turned down by the FHA. When Grace...
...think they've killed Marilyn." In seven minutes Houk reached Sheppard's house. The young doctor was shaken and bloody. His wife, Marilyn, 31, four months pregnant, was dead. Last week Dr. Sheppard was indicted for the murder. "I am not guilty," he insisted. "How could I commit such a terrible and revolting crime...
...Jersey's right-wing Republicans have been trying to commit fratricide against Clifford Case, the G.O.P. senatorial candidate, ever since Case denounced Joe McCarthy (TIME, July 19). Soon after that, 10,000 circulars titled "The Case Against Case" went out across the state. The circulars attacked the ex-Congressman as the candidate of the C.I.O. and the A.D.A. and an enemy of the late Bob Taft. The tide got so strong that last week Chief Republican Dwight Eisenhower came to Case...
...wife escaped to West Berlin and broadcast appeals to friends in East Germany for help. Reports reached the West that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...