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...Reds-under-the-beds-panicker, Bolshy boo, the fi-fo-fuming of forumites" to blast the critics of Russia. Mindful that Winchell bases most of his attacks on Post Editor Wechsler on Wechsler's admitted membership in the Young Communist League 15 years ago (TIME, Jan 21, 1952 et seq.), Rifkind needled: "Do you think that, because Winchell was wrong on Russia in 1945, Winchell ought to be held up in scorn...
...read with interest your June 8 article, "Memories Before Birth?" With psychiatry entering into all phases of human life, psychological gobbledygook has finally reached the end of the line. Et tu, fetus...
...thing that finished off the early agricultural Indians was smallpox. The villagers along the river-the Mandans, Hidatsa, Arikara, et al.-held off nomadic enemies by means of their greater numbers, their fortifications and their superior culture. But when the first whites brought smallpox, the Indians were especially vulnerable. The plague swept through their densely built-up villages and killed most of their inhabitants. The Sioux were not hit as hard. When the disease appeared, the Sioux scattered, each family for itself, until the epidemic had subsided. Then, still strong, the nomads attacked the weakened villages and destroyed most...
...college presidents, James E. Walter of Congregational Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga. is probably the most tenacious. Since he first accepted a $500-a-month gift from an educational foundation started by antiSemitic, anti-Negro onetime Judge George Armstrong of Fort Worth, Texas (TIME, March 12, 1951, et seq.), students and facultymen have demanded again & again that he resign. Last week, as the academic year closed, President Walter was in the same old cauldron again...
...through this under Hitler." The order came from the State Department, just before Senator Joe McCarthy's two young investigators, Cohn and Schine, took off for a quick look at U.S. library shelves all over the Continent. Removed were works by Reds, fellow travelers, controversial figures, "et cetera." Some of the blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup...