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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ask a Silly Question...
...volcano erupted. John Lewis roared: "When you call me a demagogue before I can reply I hurl it back in your face, sir. When you ask me are the coal miners hungry I say yes, and when you call me a demagogue I say you are less than a proper representative of the com mon people of this country. . . ." Snapped Chairman Truman: "We don't stand for any sassy remarks. I don't like that remark to a member of this com mittee...
...House of Commons calendar last week Question No. 45 had been put down by Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who delights in baiting the Churchill bull. Question No. 45: "To ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a letter appeared in the Evening Standard . . . written by a serving officer attached to an intelligence unit in North Africa. ..." The officer: Winston's only son, Major Randolph Churchill...
Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...
Mind and Body. Years ago Wisconsin's stubby, pragmatic bon vivant, Philosopher Max Otto, stood on the bank of the upper Mississippi one Sunday sunset to ask himself again what force it was that prevented the technology of the modern world from being used to the greater happiness of the plain man. Afternoon darkened into evening ; the shining silver of the river blurred in the darkness; lights began to appear in the village...