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Save Dave. John Bricker swung back to Columbus, Ohio, after trekking down side roads in 31 states, 16,000 miles from coast to coast. Harry Truman ended an 8,000-mile, 15-state tour with a blazing blunder in close-fought Massachusetts. He called his fellow Democratic Senator, Massachusetts' massive, paunchy David Ignatius Walsh, an isolationist, adding brightly: "But we have a chance to reform him." Senator Walsh, a longtime anti-New Dealer, reputedly of great influence on the Massachusetts Catholic vote, had devoted exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term...
...audience know a moment's peace. The professor's decision to dispose of the body and his meticulous efforts to obliterate all trace of the murder make a tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully...
...popular philosophy last week, Mississippi's John Elliott Rankin lashed out: "The Negroes . . . are having their hope of peace and harmony with their white neighbors destroyed by ... parlor pinks in the Department of Justice [who] are already starting to harass the Southern states as a result of the blunder of the Supreme Court...
...Gela: "Loss of the planes was 'one of those things' that will happen in a highly complicated operation . . . that could only be explained adequately by giving a blueprint of the plans. . . ." The General cited commanders' morale: "" . . Continual harping on ... error will destroy boldness. . . ." (The Gela blunder was kept in General Surles's censorship bag for eight months, popped out only after a staff sergeant, back from the front, opened...
...increasing signs . . . that our newspapers are being denied the right to print all the news. Important matters have repeatedly been withheld for months . . . the shooting down of 23 transport planes . . . what really happened in Teheran . . . the disquieting evidence of [United Nations] disunity. . . . One such incident might be charged to blunder; two such incidents begin to lay the unpleasant suspicion of Administration policy. People cannot fight a war with blinders on their eyes...