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Before it is too late NSA must consciously set out to fulfill the crying necessity for a directing hierarchy unconnected with the many established influences at work on campuses everywhere. This is neither to rap any specific present leadership nor the particular point of view which a partisan group might advance. It is simply insurance that NSA not die of slow strangulation at the hands of those knowingly or not using it for personal political and special organizational ends...
Said Ruark: "I don't know whether General Lee or his gabbling flock of tame colonels write the rules, but as Emperor of the area he has to hold still for the rap. ... It may be an army that General Lee is running, but to me it looks more like a combination of junket, political shakedown, misuse of Governmentmaterial, maltreatment of subordinates and a happy hunting-ground for desk-bound brass which spent most of its war at home and is now trying to embalm its rank abroad...
...knock at the door of the Interstate Commerce Commission sounded familiar. It sounded like the urgent rap of a man who knew his rights and wanted them fulfilled. It was the railroads again. Last year they had come seeking a 20% rate increase. They got 17.6%-a $1 billion boost in their annual revenues...
Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners...
Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...