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...furor caused by Harry Truman's letter denouncing the Marine Corps "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's" (TIME, Sept. 18) reminded a Colorado Democratic state senator that he had gotten a provocative response last year to a letter he had written to the President. State Senator Neal Bishop, knowing full well Harry Truman's dislike of John L. Lewis, had facetiously suggested putting up Mr. Lewis for Ambassador to Russia. The President's reply: "I've already appointed a good man to that post, and for your information I wouldn...
...point. He is an almost reverent admirer of Dwight Eisenhower who, George declares, refused the Republican nomination because "he didn't think it would be wise of the American people to pick as President a man they knew only as a military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd must be saved: rumps together, horns...
...musty Strand Law Courts. British War Bride Violet Benner sued for a divorce from ex-G.I. Wilbert Roy Benner of Austin, Texas. The judge, noting that Mrs. Benner was getting free legal aid, said to her counsel: "You are making history." Reminding the judge that his client had gotten a cut rate under the act, Wilbert Benner's counsel added: "I think we both...
...conference had hardly gotten under way when he made one slip. A reporter asked about plans for a final settlement of the Korean war. It had not been taken up with him, said the President. General MacArthur was making a broadcast asking the Koreans to surrender . . . At the mention of the broadcast, the presidential staff gasped in unison; the surrender speech was still two days off and supersecret. Hurriedly, Harry Truman grabbed for the ball. The newsmen would have to keep the matter of the surrender terms off the record, said he, until MacArthur delivered his speech, which...
Another person unofficially associated with the J.R.C., Mrs. William H. Riecken, Radcliffe '49, has disappeared from the focal scene and is reported to have gone to California where her husband had gotten a teaching...