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...observes Dr. Busch in the Mydans novel, "is no place for personal dignity. The humiliating lack of privacy was the worst: "Two hundred peoper having ten rooms," the Jap officer had shouted. "Radies having one room. . . ." The Jap commandant even banned hand-holding ("He said such displays of affection offend the morals of his guards"). Food was scarce and nauseating. "The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it. ..." Under the taut, enervating pressures of the camp, the internees' characters changed, warped, withered and, in some cases...
...campaigners thought their advertising would not offend the only big organization that might object - the Roman Catholic Church - because: 1) an intensified local campaign along the same lines had stirred no protests in the intensely Catholic New Orleans area; and 2) the advertising had been approved by an interdenominational advisory committee. But objections soon poured in from such conservative Catholic sources as the 50,000 New York State Knights of Columbus and the 51,000 New York and New Jersey Catholic War Veterans. Sample complaint: "We should seek to promote morality and clean living rather than the open and shameless...
...Texas Way. Governor Stevenson entered the President's office at11 a.m. He had a minutely worked out compromise, designed to offend nobody. He outlined it persuasively to the President. Why not have two sets of Democratic electors listed on the Texas ballot-one pro-Roosevelt, one anti-Roosevelt? An hour later the Governor emerged smiling from the White House and told Jesse Jones and Harry Truman, who were waiting to drive him to the Capitol, that the President had agreed...
...veteran Director William Dieterle has achieved a few moments of high whimsy. Best line: says the Grand Vizier explaining why it would be impolitic to depose Miss Dietrich as queen of the dancing girls, "She's a gift from Macedonia, and we can't offend Macedonia...
...Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young man (45), a Far Westerner and a liberal who would not offend too many conservatives...