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...against the U.S. Communists accomplished so far? The visible party is in worse shape today than it has been in 30 years. Items: ¶Virtually the entire known leadership is in trouble with the law. Eleven members of the twelve-man national committee were convicted in 1949, at the marathon trial before Judge Medina, of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government. Of the eleven, eight are in jail; three jumped bail and are still fugitives. The party's nominal boss, William Z. Foster, 71, is under indictment. Last year 21 members of the Communist second team were indicted, including...
Douglas Southall Freeman's marathon biography disposes of this notion once & for all. Though Freeman writes without grace and often loses his story in a wilderness of battle detail, he does bring out Washington's heroic stature. Simply by piling up grey mountains of fact, Freeman shows that those who snipe at Washington for not being a great thinker or military strategist neglect something more important: that he was a great leader...
...Marathon Kisses...
...longer call him squash-shaped, says Di Salle, because he has lost 30 Ibs.). Di Salle is not well known in his home state, despite his three years as mayor of Toledo and his 14 months as U.S. price administrator in Washington. Di Salle is using the talkathon, the marathon radio question-answering technique, which has been remarkably effective in some states and not so effective in others. There is a wide difference in the organization support the two men have. When Di Salle held a press conference in Columbus recently, Democratic state headquarters didn't even know where...
...stance for the Russians-but the gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items 1 and 2 would deal with the framing of the all-German government and the peace treaty. Thus, in a Panmunjom type of marathon, the Russian negotiators could haggle and stall endlessly over Items 1 and 2, meanwhile holding up the European Army...