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Regarding MacArthur's policy on Formosa [TIME, Sept. 4]: I cannot help but think of our entering Iceland in 1941 when we were not yet at war. The parallel is exact today in the case of Formosa...
...Heard that conferees had, also, agreed on a $17 billion supplementary appropriation, mostly for defense of the U.S. and its allies; had disagreed on a Senate-sponsored amendment forbidding economic (but not military) help for any Marshall plan nation exporting strategic materials to Communist nations...
...thing, she could not go to California without also giving a cheer for her longtime friend, Democratic Senatorial Candidate Helen Gahagan Douglas. And Candidate Helen was not seeing eye to eye with Candidate Jimmy at all. Her backers, in fact, were complaining that Jimmy was not only failing to help her, but failing to help himself. Many another Democrat was sore because Jimmy was giving talks on public utilities and happiness instead of trying to paint Governor Warren as a drooling Republican fiend...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood manners & morals (TIME...
...chief of 500 A.D. who had hopped a balsa-log raft to escape his enemies. Kon-Tiki had a destination, too, but it was born of a hunch and a prayer. Her captain, Norwegian Scientist Thor Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is one of the best man-against...