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Lucy's little tousle-haired brother Linus is the strip's intellectual, but he is thrown into a tizzy whenever he loses his security blanket. "Sucking your thumb without a blanket," he confides, "is like eating a cone without ice cream." Linus is Horatio Alger in reverse: "No problem is so big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from." Snoopy, the dog with the floppy ears and foolish smile, is the perfect hedonist. He dances, skates, jumps rope, hunches like a vulture but above all likes to lie flat on his back...
...adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend...
Tough Culture. Just as obsolete are most conventional notions about teen agers, a word invented in the U.S. and popularized scarcely 25 years ago to supplant such earlier images as the carefree Huck Finn type, the early-to-work Horatio Alger model and the heavily psychological "adolescent" of three decades back. It was the culmination of the process by which, as Sociologist Denney points out, the U.S. became the first nation to transform children from "a family asset as labor to a family liability as student-consumer." That liability is one that the U.S. seems willing to afford...
...year ago when Kingman Brewster, then acting president, persuaded students to cancel a speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace; and now "the administration suffers in agonizing silence rather than tamper with free speech and action" says Yale Daily News Chairman Alexander Sharp. When Princeton undergraduates invited Alger Hiss to the campus in 1956, prompting hundreds of irate letters from alumni, then-President Harold Willis Dodds refused to intervene. "We have sought to resolve this problem not in terms of academic freedom, but in the deeper terms of human freedom," he said. "To learn the personal significance...
...ideological shift. A majority of the defeated Republicans are conservatives who could rarely be enticed to support a Johnson Administration bill. Seven unseated Republicans in New York were conservatives, including such unbudgeable veterans as Katharine St. George and Steven Derounian. Texas lost its only Republican Congressmen, Goldwater-styled Bruce Alger and Ed Foreman. Five of Iowa's six Republican seats, held mostly by conservatives, slipped away; the survivor was H. R. Gross (TiME, June 15, 1962), who has won a reputation more as an anti-spendthrift than a conservative. On the other hand, many of the G.O.P. survivors...