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When the Fascists late in the war arrested Alcide de Gasperi (who was to become Italy's great postwar Premier), they found a small notebook full of names. Soon a band of Fascist toughs burst into the Florence home of Lawyer Adone Zoli, one of those named, to haul him off to jail. "Be careful, or I'll kick your teeth in," warned one of the Blackshirts. "Too late," answered Lawyer Zoli. "They are false...
...editorial might well have run in the Chicago Tribune. In fact, it appeared in John Shively Knight's Chicago Daily News and the four other metropolitan newspapers of the Knight chain.* Written by Publisher Knight, whose weekly, three-column "Editor's Notebook" sets policy for all Knight papers, the editorial was the latest in a series of pronouncements through which the powerful chain in less than five months has abjured its longtime support for Eisenhower and marched toward total estrangement from Modern Republicanism...
Shuttling between his 8-ft. desk in the Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
Early Start. Most of the visiting swimming coaches spent their spare time in Melbourne last fall trailing their hosts with notebook and stopwatch, trying to learn the Aussies' secrets. The Russians even tried an eight-course dinner-and-pumping session aboard the Soviet liner Gruzia. But the Aussies had nothing to hide. Their long months of balmy weather and seaboard beaches make waterbugs of thousands of Australians as soon as they can toddle. Once a youngster can keep his head above the surface, he can join one of 450 A.S.U. sponsored clubs, where competent coaches will teach him free...
...should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned sheds, robbed fraternity houses, cheated at cards; and their IQs were among the highest in all the Midwest. Murder would really prove their superiority. So they made a compact to murder...