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...their taxes, and sell their wheat is a husky (5 ft. 11½ in., 175 lbs.) prairie lawyer who practices the profession of politics with all the zeal of a successful evangelist. John Diefenbaker is an intense, moody man, sensitive to personal affront. His deep-set blue eyes can blaze with anger or fill with quick emotion; moments later he can smile with easy friendship, remember a name, recall an anecdote to suit an occasion and mood. Brought up a Baptist, Diefenbaker does not smoke, and he recently surprised Sir Winston Churchill by declining politely to share a bottle...
...couple of the New York critics this summer took exception to Hyman's new approach; they wanted him to writhe and blaze furiously. One of them, now the most influential critic, made the same criticism he had voiced about Huston's conception 20 years...
...television this season as a taboo-smashing interviewer (TIME, Jan. 7), had been trying for three weeks to strike similarly bright sparks with his new ABC network show on Sunday night. Last week, bringing "reformed" Los Angeles Racketeer Mickey Cohen into the U.S. living room, Wallace struck up a blaze that threatened to make things hot for him and his network despite all efforts to douse...
...subsequent blaze of publisity, it would be announsed that the troublesome 'PH' would henseforth be written 'F'. This would make words like 'fonograf 20 persent shorter in print...
Word of Advice. A team of five English-speaking students of Barth promptly rallied to defend their master. His silence during the Soviet suppression of Hungary, they said, was to avoid pouring fuel on the blaze of "crusading fervor" that flared up in Switzerland at the time. And why, they ask, should Barth have "to speak to every significant event"? They deny that Barth rejects all political principle-pointing out that he told the Hungarians it was not permissible to join the Communist Party merely to keep...