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...language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...week's end, the Americans bowed out of Strasbourg, leaving behind a blunt warning that U.S. taxpayers are getting tired of helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
Individuals v. Policy. Judge Streit's blast brought some blunt and immediate answers. "It isn't any of the judge's business in the first place," yelped S.M.U. Athletic Director Matty Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit...
Liberty Before Peace. "Fundamentally," he begins, "I believe the ultimate purpose of our foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the U.S." Second to protection of liberty comes "the maintenance of peace." This blunt ranking of liberty above peace is in a solid American tradition, but it is also a courageous campaign proclamation for a candidate who, through discreet silence, might capture the sizable peace-at-any-price vote from Harry Truman. It is reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's famous speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize when he said that...
Keep the Change. Even for Texas, Hugh Cullen is a strange sort of angel for any university. He is a big, blunt man whose own schooling lasted exactly three years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...