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Sergeant Robert G. Biesecker, of Bertrand, Nebr., who is in charge of plotting maps for tactical reconnaissance at this advanced fighter plane base, had this...
...profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...
...trouble all his life. In his most glorious days, in the '20s, when such youngsters as Benny Goodman and Bix Beiderbecke gathered around to hear Jelly's style ("Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm"), he was "all in diamonds." As his wife Mabel Bertrand recalls: "His watch was circled in diamonds. His belt buckle was in gold and studded with diamonds. He even had sock-supporters of solid gold set with diamonds. Then you could see that big half-carat diamond sparkling in his teeth . . ." When he was riding high, he toured the country...
...anti-Communist crusade is the most important New Leader job, it is not the only one. It also aims to present "a variety of opinions consistent with our democratic policy." As a result, its pages have glittered with articles by such big names as Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, Novelists George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, Poet Carl Sandburg, Politicos Herbert Morrison and Leon Blum, Labor Leaders Walter Reuther and James Carey, and a host of others...
...eloquent speeches (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Secretary Acheson had described the world scene which made these hard decisions inescapable. Last week, writing in United Nations World, Philosopher Bertrand Russell also achieved an eloquent definition of the free world's danger. Said...