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...went on in the hospital camp on the mainland, near Pusan as well as on bloody Koje Island. Under such conditions, no fair or complete balloting on political preference was possible. Washington apparently did not realize this. Washington knew only that "voluntary repatriation" was morally impeccable, and also politically shrewd and foresighted...
Even though New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock has aimed many a shrewd blow at the New and Fair Deals, both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman gave him exclusive interviews that resulted in Krock's winning a Pulitzer Prize and a special citation. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, No. 2 man in the Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known...
...Fiction, is quite different however. It has space-ships of course, and planets, galaxies and stars with all sorts of exotic, Greek-type names, too, but this is a basic ingredient which no science fiction magazine can do without. The stories in ASF are, however, based on calculations and shrewd hypotheses thought up by bona fide scientists, and most of them have an authentic flavor. The writing is certainly competent, though there are too many traces of Nick Carter dialogue to suit my taste. The writers manage to generate tension by the usual device of the twist ending...
Because of this doom and gloom atmosphere the scientists produce whenever they apply pencil to paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...
...Michigan, only 13 of the 46 delegates are solidly committed (seven for Eisenhower, six for Taft). But in Texas, where delegates will be chosen at a state convention May 27, and in California, where the delegation is still in Earl Warren's pocket, Eisenhower supporters struck one shrewd blow last week. H. J. (Jack) Porter, head of the Eisenhower-for-President Club of Texas, said he wrote Ike asking him whether he favors "state or federal ownership of the 'tidelands.'" Ike's reply (which pleased oil-rich Texas and California alike): "Once again, I agree with...