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...Empty Chair. While he was at war his wife had gotten into politics. A onetime actress, a daughter of famed Sculptor Lorado Taft,* Emily Taft Douglas had taken the stump against the Republicans' rabidly isolationist Representative-at-large, Stephen A. Day, had concentrated on one issue-internationalism-and beaten...
...center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...
...Pross, Darling . . . How too bad! I hope Tim isn't very sick [Mrs. Hiss's son Timmy had gotten chicken pox during the visit in Chappaqua] and it won't spread . . . Sic semper cinema! I wish I were there to help thee. [Hiss explained that since Mrs. Hiss is a Quaker he had written in the "simple" language.] Don't dream of coming down Saturday . . ." The letter closed with: "My love and commiseration to Sarah and Moll. Dearest love to thee. Thy Hilly...
...orderly mind of Indiana University Mathematics Professor Kenneth P. Williams, the job of scholarship seemed imperfectly done. A onetime World War I artillery officer whose only books had been about mathematics and astronomy, he had long felt that the Union armies and Union generalship had never gotten their...
...judge asked for transcripts of the wire-tapped talks. But it seemed the FBI had destroyed many of the records. The Government added hastily that the FBI had not gotten much from the wire taps, anyway; its case was based on other evidence. The Government's attorneys, plainly unhappy, wished that the judge would let the whole matter drop and get the trial started...