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...village of Great Leighs in Essex thought itself bewitched last week. On Scrapfaggot Green a G.I., driving a bulldozer, had pushed the stone off the grave of a witch, dead with a stake in her heart these 200 years. Now she was hightailing about the countryside, scattering scaffolds, blowing down haystacks, ringing church bells in the dead of night...
...Browder foresaw, if Dewey were elected: the Soviet would be warned that the U.S. was determined to stop cooperating with it as soon as possible ; no postwar world security organization would be possible ; John L. Lewis would seize control of the U.S. labor movement; the G.O.P. would start a "witch-hunt" through the U.S. for hidden Communists; a series of strike waves would ensue; and finally, "all hope of orderly and peaceful progress, national and international, will disappear...
Strewn with sprightly observations and anecdotes, My Unconsidered Judgment is principally composed of a series of biographical articles which appeared originally as LIFE closeups. Their subjects include Field Marshal Jan Smuts, a South African witch doctor named John Chavafoimbira, Anthony Eden, an Irish publican named Jack Nugent and Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...
...propaganda stops were pulled out in Germany for the Herrenvolk to get what hope they might out of V-1's success, V-2's promise. Radio Berlin told a modern witch-on-a-broomstick story...
...witch was tiny (95 lb.) Hanna Reitsch, famed glider and helicopter pilot (who was a U.S. National Air Races stunting favorite in 1938). The story: in 1942 V-1 had a tendency to shake off its wings. In a robot fitted with landing skids...