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Party Orders. Before the Brownell speech, neither Truman nor any other leader of his Administration had ever publicly suggested that White was fired, or that they believed him to be disloyal. In fact, White, who died on Aug. 16, 1948, apparently of a heart attack, three days after being questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, has been considered in pro-Truman quarters as an innocent martyr to "witch hunters...
...other companies have been sold privately (TIME, Aug...
...impenetrable thicket around the truth. Two generations of scholars have quarreled about the meaning of Washington's Farewell Address, simply because no one knows whether Washington himself or Alexander Hamilton was its author." The same can be said of Woodrow Wilson's "neutrality in thought" proclamation of Aug. 18, 1914. Recent investigations have "turned up the original draft of this proclamation in the handwriting of Robert Lansing, with changes and notations by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan . . . Therefore, if any character is revealed ... it is that of Lansing or perhaps that of Bryan. Certainly it is doubtful...
...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller (TIME, Aug...
From Here to Eternity. James Jones's novel about life in the peacetime Army, compressed into a hard, tensely acted movie (TIME, Aug...