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...eloquently endorsing their words, condemned the idea as "un-Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen...
...Senate speech Jenner called World War II General George Catlett Marshall a "front man for traitors." Two years later, during the 1952 presidential campaign, Ike, who had consistently expressed his high admiration of Marshall, appeared on the same platform with Jenner, included him in a blanket endorsement of Indiana G.O.P. candidates...
Shortly before the downy blanket of winter is drawn up snugly over the countryside, the New York Times publishes a survey of that city's Hundred Neediest Cases. For several pages it details woeful tale after woeful tale, the plight of an "Overburdened Girl" or "Courageous Grandmother" unfolding in full tragedy...
...case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister who wrote to the Birmingham News last September simply to protest Orval Faubus' indictment of Presbyterian ministers as "brainwashed left-wingers" (TIME, Sept. 29) still gets regular, threatening, dead-of-night phone calls. And the thing...
...insure cooperation by seating two elected members from each House on House Committees, instead of only one. "We would get solidarity by having Council members speak to and get advice from House Committees, he claimed. However, Marc E. Leland '59, president of the Council, said that no one blanket rule could be made for all the Houses...