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...release of the Yalta papers "will persuade the rest of the world that John Foster Dulles is an idiot, if they need any persuasion." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History said last night...
...Idiot Sheet: Printed reminder sheets out of camera range...
...democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without hysterical wailing, as "a bad skin disease, rather than a cancer." Inevitably, onetime Presbyterian Parson Thomas reflected on the day-dreamy luxury of turning back the clock: "I am not such an idiot as to say that if I had my life to live over again I would not change it some, but I would not change the main lines. I might have gone further as a Republican or a Democrat, but I am not disappointed that...
Schwerin cites one example of a typical TV drama about a-young married couple in which the husband is the bumbling idiot. A coffee commercial at the end of the program declared that the head of the household knows best about coffee brands, and pictured a pleased father drinking the brew and calling for it by name. The preconditioned viewers could not swallow that, according to Schwerin's figures, and belief in the advertiser dropped...
Coward patiently repeated his spiel, this time "articulating very, very slowly as though I were talking to an idiot child." But Brooks only sighed wearily and said: "It's no good, old boy. I can't understand a word." By the Numbers. Brooks "explained some weeks later . . . that he had been asleep when I rang up and thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have...