Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plain Talk. Co-editors Hazlitt, LaFollette and Chamberlain, old friends, have long had the idea for the magazine, but lacked the financial backing. A year ago they teamed up with Alfred Kohlberg, a wealthy New York linen importer and stout supporter of Chiang Kaishek. At the time, Kohlberg was backing the anti-Communist monthly Plain Talk...
After hearing the LaFollette-Hazlitt-Chamberlain plan, he decided to fold up faltering Plain Talk and transfer the 5,000 unexpired subscriptions to The Freeman. He became treasurer and helped to raise $130,000 (of which Kohlberg contributed 10%). Names of other supporters were a resolutely-kept secret...
Something Positive. The Freeman's editors plan to break away from the rigidly anti-Communist diet of Plain Talk, "go on to something more positive." Says Chamberlain: "The fight [against Communists] has been won domestically . . . You don't have to keep telling people that Communists have techniques of getting into organizations and are pretty good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky...
Within minutes after the kickoff, it became plain to the 56,748 rabid fans in Notre Dame Stadium that Frank Leahy had finally spoken a mouthful. Purdue Coach Stu Holcomb, onetime assistant to Army's master strategist Red Blaik, had drilled his Boilermakers to peak precision. Behind their own hard-charging line, Purdue's backs ripped a dazed Notre Dame forward wall to shreds. At halftime Purdue...
...holiday tomorrow or later in the week. While he would not reveal what preparations were being made and admitted that "we catch them (invaders) quite often but not always" Toomey, who for many years has been the traditional "yard cop," added, "but it's easy to dress agents in plain clothes, you know...