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...country. As for the second statement, I think it hardly necessary or even proper to answer, and thus render legitimate, such an obvious bit of name-calling. I do think it unfortunate that a person of Walker's intelligence should think it possible in a Harvard publication to pin a label on his opponents and thereby dispense with the method, more customary in a University, of rationally discussing diverse viewpoints on the basis of their merits alone. Harry A. Mendelsohn Chairman, Harvard Youth for Democracy

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brewster's Burlesque | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...puts on the stuff, then he takes a pin Applies some pressure till the jive sinks in The people are nice, and they treat you great So don't wait, Gate-Vaccinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ya Ess Goony Gress | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...ball high in the air and stops it dead on the green). His tee shots are medium-long but uncannily straight. His putting ("an easy, relaxed swing with the putter blade square to the ball at the impact ... an easy follow-through in the direction of the ball and pin") is as smooth and precise as Willie Hoppe stroking a billiard ball. "It just takes practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Am Bobby Locke | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for pondering the subtleties of his religion -he is much too busy working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dynamo of Good Will | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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