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...batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet's men use the idle time to cut the next distilling season's peat fuel from the nearby bog of Faemussach...
...truce had been arranged, Truman's foreign policy would have scored a tremendous victory. Campaigning on a Peace and Prosperity platform, Truman could be very hard to beat. But Harry Truman, for all his vices, is not Stalin's kind of President. So Stalin has let the truce talks bog down. The Korean casualties continue to trickle in, causing increasing impatience with Truman's foreign policy--impatience mixed with disillusionment, since what seemed at first a quick war has dragged on to exasperation. If the Democrats are to salvage any credit out of a truce, it will have...
...Composer W. C. (St. Louis Blues) Handy, 78, deplored the musical evils of social equality. Such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he said, "are taking the blues away from us . . . They are leading the American Negro away from his real heritage into a bog of pretense and insincerity . . . Too many Negroes today are busy singing and talking five or six languages and turning up their noses at the blues...
Nash, who owns a cranberry bog in McCarthy's own Wisconsin and was once a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Toronto, made a quick reply: "A contemptible lie." McCarthy, he said, apparently was stung by an anti-McCarthy ad in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (circ. 7,952), signed by a group of citizens including Nash's sister, Jean...
Sparks & Singes. The democratic working was thanks primarily to one man, a tough-minded, energetic political pinwheel named Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with bog-sigh-sigh). Magsaysay, who is only 44, first flashed into national view in September 1950, when President Quirino appointed him Secretary of Defense, and gave him broad authority. The sparks he has been shooting off since then have singed the once mighty Huks, ignited the tempers of bigwigs in his own Liberal Party, and fired the ardor of the common Filipino all over the islands...