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...explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...
Beaming, Lamar said he had gone on the duck hunt-but that he definitely had not been influenced. It was, he said, a "messed-up" duck hunt. The weather was cold, he didn't like to kill ducks, he had no heavy clothing-and he only agreed to go because "the brethren" (including Alford's attorney) had made all the preparations...
These cuts were proposed last week by President Eisenhower when he asked for 5.2 billion dollars less in military appropriations that was requested in Truman's "lame-duck budget." Almost this entire cut is in the Air Force appropriations which are to be slashed from 16.7 billion to 11.7 billion...
Small Voice. In St. Louis, when police asked John Shannon whether he had broken a window of the Supreme Poultry & Fish Co. and stolen a duck, he retorted: "I don't know a thing about it," was contradicted by a loud quack from inside his shirt...
...rail against "our godless campuses," Walsh recognizes a religious vacuum in most colleges. Putting the point differently, he declares that the campuses have in fact a plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism." In Campus Gods on Trial, Walsh tries to prove the inadequacy of the varied isms as philosophies...