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...liberal" journalists and politicians have proven easy pickings in the Red plan to calm this country into apathy against their infiltration tactics. They don't seem to realize that we must soil our hands in order to dig out the rodents that have burrowed into our backyard...
...where are the curly-fused cannon crackers of yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...woman's leg behind some wallpaper in the bathroom (TIME, April 16). A police search uncovered the trussed and strangled bodies of three women hidden in a sealed closet, another under the floorboards, the remains of at least two others in a buried garbage can in the backyard. The dead woman under the floorboards was Ethel Christie...
...York's Governor Tom Dewey was never a man to encourage possible G.O.P. rivals in his own backyard. But when, in 1950, Dewey hand-picked scholarly Lawyer Frank Charles Moore, 57, for lieutenant governor, the pundits thought Dewey might be grooming a successor. Last week Lieutenant Governor Moore abruptly announced that he would resign in September to become president of Government Research Foundation, Inc., a new Rockefeller enterprise to study ways of improving government...
Washington's Griffith Stadium. Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft. away, bounced off a 60-ft. sign, and came to rest in a backyard 565 ft. from home plate. "I unloaded on it," said Mickey Mantle. "I guess it was the longest ball I ever hit in my life...