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...under the easy-going chairmanship of Senator Mundt, the hearings have aimed at anything but brevity. Mundt's smiling submission to stalling and deviations on both sides and to the points of disorder raised by McCarthy, has won him acclaim as an impartial and patient judge. But this leniency has let the inquiry roam through so many irrelevant topics, that talk of a Christmas recess is hardly unwarranted. At the rate hearings have progressed so far, public interest will surely ebb long before they are finished. Moreover, the television networks, which have taken terrific losses in return for their extensive...
Besides holding an outstanding position in the world of anthropology, Hooton was always an admired teacher. His witty speaking style brought him acclaim from the undergraduates and made his lectures a College legend. His courses were the most popular in his field...
With Jameson's scholarly research and Shapiro's managerial finesse, the the group has gotten off to a strong start and Adams House is again winning further acclaim its plump connoisseurs of good food...
...more than parents today deserve. The strip-film projector is no substitute for mother love, the basketball game for rabbit-hunting with Dad. The sooner parents return to the fundamental philosophy of home as the center of family life, the 'better off the kids will be ... Some people acclaim TV as the savior of the family at home. This still avoids the main issue: love and affection for one another...
...Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson cocked an ear for popular acclaim, met with a cathedral hush, and came to a politician's most distressing decision: not to stand for reelection. Last week Hendrickson, an earnest but ineffectual performer in Washington, withdrew from the G.O.P. primary. With Hendrickson scratched, the odds-on Republican favorite becomes former Representative Clifford Case, who would probably have won the primary even if Hendrickson had stayed in (TIME, March 15). Probable Democratic nominee: Pennington's Representative Charles Howell, longtime advocate of a temple of fine arts in Washington...