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...Main target of the uproar was Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigating committee three weeks ago hired J. B. Matthews as its executive director. Few Americans have held a Red hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging...
...individual teacher and learner. He has set up broad special study programs in the humanities, American civilization and the creative arts. He has set up full-fledged departments of music and religion, has constantly reminded his campus to "look to religion for the truths that will not perish." The target Dodds has set for himself: not novelty, but depth...
...strong probability is that Tydings would have been beaten anyway . . . The Connecticut case is even clearer. In 1950, McCarthy campaigned against [William] Benton, and Benton won in what was a generally tough year for the Democrats. In 1952, McCarthy made Benton almost his chief campaign target, [and] Benton ran a considerable margin ahead of Stevenson...
...Almost human in the way it spots its target is the Army's new radar-controlled antiaircraft...
...another mile to go, Sheldon is so obsessed with the task of getting there that he hardly thinks of what he must do when he arrives. The Germans take care of that. Spotting the patrol, they open up. The fire is that of a battalion; by serving as a target, Sheldon gets the information he is after. Scrambling back under enemy guns and at daybreak under enemy planes, Sheldon is wounded in the leg and dies after reaching his own lines...