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McCarthy concluded by telling the voters of the nation it would be up to them today "either to get rid of Communists and fellow travelers or vote more of them into positions of power...
...Government must be constituted ... of such incorruptible character that subversion cannot creep in ... And if there be an erring man or woman, who having gotten into . . . Government, shows the signs of disloyalty, we have ample, just and American methods of getting rid of them. We have to destroy the reputation of no innocent man. We can do it and must do it promptly, but in the American...
...grasps the true nature of Waugh's creation. Captain Apthorpe is Shakespeare's Falstaff, perfectly brought up-to-date, but with his roots set firmly in the historic past. And it is Brigadier Ritchie-Hook who drives him to his death, much as King Henry V impatiently rid his army of "that stuff'd cloakbag of guts...
High on our list of people who cannot leave well enough alone is the man who showed up in the National Baseball league offices a couple of weeks ago with a finish-line camera he wanted to put behind first base. Nitty idea, he said. Now we can get rid of those umpires and really call the close ones. Somebody ought to get to that man, for in his earnestly misguided way he is chopping not only at the roots of the national pastime but at our very culture...
...Kuhn admits that it has been "quite a struggle" to rid the Museums of the stigma born of forty years of national hatreds, but he is satisfied with the progress Busch-Reisinger has made toward its triple goal: to serve the art department, the German department, and the General needs of the University...