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There were cries in the House last week that the reports of isolationism's death had been greatly exaggerated. The charge was more shrill than fair. Congress had come a long way since four months before Pearl Harbor when extension of the draft came within one vote of being defeated...
Gonzalez gave his cabinet a nutshell diagnosis of the situation: "The Communists have taken advantage of the students. We have to stop them at once." Then he put the riot-torn city under military rule, and went into a huddle with his aides to draft a message to Congress asking for special powers...
Fate of the Essex. There was a first draft of the book, but Melville was dissatisfied with it by the time it was finished. By then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so fired by such investigations of the human spirit that he decided to transform his own whaling story into something grander. He would "turn blubber into poetry...
Fate of Man. To prevent his whale from swallowing his novel, Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...
Gara scolded the police for arresting the student, wrote a letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register...