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Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily on his peculiar assets-the husky Godfrey voice-with-a-personality and the honest-Injun Godfrey face-he made $10,000 in five months. Three months later he had lost it all as the star and backer of a vaudeville troupe that careened from Chicago to Los Angeles and expired among the orange groves...
Future British foreign policy will depend little on which party is in power. Though Winston Churchill, the Conservative leader, is a strong backer of a European political union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...rainmaking got a bad setback more than a year ago when the Air Force and the Weather Bureau spewed quantities of dry ice into juicy Ohio clouds and produced hardly any rain (TIME, Dec. 6, 1948). But Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, leading backer of scientific rainmaking, is notably hard to discourage. Last week he told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences about more successful experiments in New Mexico...
...freshman, Isenberg played guard and right halfback, but Valpey converted him to the backer-up position in 1948 in order to utilize his defensive abilities. Isenberg was a fullback at the Loomis School, Windsor, Connecticut...