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...Patch up the blistering feud between France and Germany over the coal-rich Saar which the French control and the Germans covet...
Inescapable Conflict. John Sparkman likes to reconcile-or at least patch up-opposing views, a taste which makes him a good politician. But in February 1948 came Harry Truman's call for compulsory FEPC, anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws, a blow which forced the great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion...
...Like Bones." On paper, Compromiser Sparkman looks like a good choice in the Democratic effort to patch up a North-South compromise. In fact, the choice of Sparkman has had little effect so far on the party in the South. Dissident Southern leaders, mildly pleased by Stevenson's nomination, tend to be contemptuous of Sparkman. The basic Southern objection to him is clearly expressed by a supporter of Georgia's Herman Talmadge: "Sparkman is as bad a left-winger as the rest, except on the civil rights issue." Says Herman himself: "Sparkman was just a bone tossed...
...impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...your June 23 article on the patch over the eye of the Hathaway shirt man: I thought you might be interested in knowing that Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer, has just designed a toy duck for a large toy firm. The duck will have a patch over its eye. The company expects to make 5,000,000 of them, and I wouldn't be surprised if cows and horses take...