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...before they could take the stand, prosecution and defense agreed that the "serious accusation" of the letter "had brought an entirely new element to the trial." The judge concurred and this week ordered the trial of Editor Muto suspended indefinitely. Instead, he recommended, there should be a new and wider investigation of the whole shocking affair...
...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...
...boost into a Council position some friends of theirs who was completely unknown to the rest of the College into a Council position. Often a man could win with votes from only one House. This saddled the Council with candidates of cliques, and students more acceptable to the wider undergraduate body lost...
...When you're shooting from the side, that's the target . . . His brain is right under . . . Crocodile tears? . . . After I've shot them I've found tear stains down their cheeks. It's my theory they shed them when straining to open their mouths wider for a big chunk of meat...
...Religion is gaining ground-morality is losing ground," said Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary at an interdenominational seminar. "This is one of the most surprising and overlooked facts in America today . . . Churches possess a larger and wider allegiance . . . than ever before," but crime, alcoholism, divorce and sexual laxity are on the alarming increase. "Either there will be a moral renewal or [religion's gains] will fritter out into futility...