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...Alsop is not happy. He is incorrigibly gloomy, an inveterate prophet of perdition, forever firing literate messages of despair at what he deems to be a complacent multitude of 35 million readers. His columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink of disaster," "in these dark times," "the edge of the abyss." Should hope well feebly in his breast, he is inclined to stifle it: "It is still too early to say that the worst result is already inevitable...
...aces in the Pacific were Richard L. Bong, with 40 kills, Thomas B. McGuire, with...
There was little reason to believe that Rhee would not repeat, or even better, his sweep of previous years. His chief rival, Democratic Party Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky (Shin Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...
With his own party's slate of candidates in good order, Rhee then set out to purge the opposition list of objectionable men. To Home Minister Paik Han Sung he sent a note listing three of the most objectionable: Assembly Chairman P. H. Shinicky, Vice Chairman Cho Bong Am, and former Home Minister Chough Pyung Ok-all members of the Democratic Nationalist Party (DNP). Minister Paik in turn set his remarkably efficient police force to "investigating" Shinicky, Cho and Chough. With election day less than a fortnight away, all three candidates seem to have been effectively eliminated from further...
...Bong Am, who in the 1952 presidential election polled 788,000 votes, was disqualified by the Central Election Committee because of "insufficient popular support," i.e., because he could not get 100 signers to support a registration petition for him. Many of his original petition signers had been persuaded by police to withdraw their names. ¶ Chough Pyung Ok's campaign manager was jailed in Taegu on a charge that Chough had paid his 100 registration-petition signers 600 hwan ($3.33) each for their signatures...