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...Democrats turned a brave face to their changed situation. "Our primary issue is the country's welfare, and we are happy that through the course of events some of the issues, which once seemed so important, are now in the process of disappearing." said Florida's George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. But the shift of issues was plainly forcing the Democrats toward a change in campaign strategy. With most of the steam gone from some of their liveliest stumping topics, they began heading back to the course steered all along by Senate Majority Leader...
...some friendly golf, chess and fishing with the Army's Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, Mullin was zestfully skewering a typical summer's assortment of subjects. In for a joshing came Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas. A potbellied, stein-hoisting Brave celebrated Milwaukee's National League lead in German dialect, and days later Mullin's cutlass-swinging Pittsburgh Pirate was walking the plank while a puzzled Brave looked...
Faubus' landslide raised points far more serious than politics. A Federal Court of Appeals is reviewing Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision to delay for 2½ years integration at Little Rock Central High; if the delay is refused, it will take a brave Negro to claim his rights at school's opening. Most Arkansans also expect trouble in the seven other communities that have already begun integration. In seven Southern states-Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-there is no integration at all, and the newly emboldened anti-integration forces are waiting...
...feet eight, came in. They couldn't have been more charming. They got me this sweet doctor and he took five stitches in my arm." While in minor surgery, she cried to a hovering medic: "Dahling, kiss me a couple of times, you've been so brave...
...absence of any recognizable visual imagery has struck many critics and philosophers, like Theologian Paul Tillich, as a cult of meaninglessness, proof of "the emptiness of our existence in industrial society." Other critics have an entirely different perspective, see in the abstract-expressionist breakthrough the opening of a brave, new, unfettered world of art. Worcester Museum Director Daniel Catton Rich finds the movement producing "the most fruitful work being done in this decade ... a new, vital kind of American abstraction, pictures which in sweep, size and dynamics display typically American qualities. Beside them many European contemporaries seem weak and uninventive...