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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Freedom Lost. "Out of rubble heaps, willing hands can rebuild a better city; but out of freedom lost can stem only generations of hate and bitter struggle and brutal oppression . . . Far better risk a war of possible annihilation than grasp a peace which would be the certain extinction of free man's ideas and ideals...
Strachey's own defense concluded with a peculiar quotation from an article by him last month in the London Tribune. He had written: "All the nightmare aspects of the Soviet regime really stem from the gigantic error of having maintained, by brute force, far too highly developed an economy among a population the relative maturity of which was totally inadequate to sustain...
...dissatisfaction of the maids does not stem merely from the condition of student rooms. Most of them feel that their work is harder than it ever...
...this week, with her show not yet a month old, Carol Channing's sudden fame was making itself felt in every tributary alley along the main stem. Newspaper columnists and Sunday feature writers were peppering their columns with "items," and plaguing the new celebrity with requests for interviews at the rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei...