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College delegates to the recent convention were Francis D. Fisher '48, who focused his attention on international issues; Frederick D. Houghetling '50, who was elected to the Constitution Committee; and Selig S. Harrison '48, who helped draft the recommendations of the Panel on Educational Opportunity, David C. Poskanzer '50, alternate delegate, chaired the key sub-panel on academe freedom...
...Conniving. Did he know that Roy Roberts, the supercharged managing editor of the Kansas City Star, had predicted that Eisenhower would bow to an honest draft...
...Someone," said the General, "showed me that article. It also said that a draft without conniving in advance was an impossibility in this country. Now I assure you I am not going to give any authority for conniving." Then he added thoughtfully: "I have friends in all political parties...
Also in Chicago, Texas' General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.) simultaneously denied that he knew of any draft-Wainwright-for-the-Senate movement and declared that he would be happy...
...fiction, House Divided is often contrived and melodramatic. As history, it is the war dimly seen through a haze of corruption, mismanagement, profiteering, draft-dodging, mint juleps and delusions of grandeur. Tedious as that is, readers can hardly fail to be impressed by the author's epic attempt to disinter the whole Confederacy. Says one character: "The Lord is on our side, but in consequence of pressing engagements elsewhere He could not attend at Fisher's Creek, Winchester, and Atlanta." If the Lord could not attend, history-grubbing Author Williams could, after a fashion...