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...answer to the poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World War I sabotage, she was eventually pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young after a storm of appeals from liberal sympathizers, many of whom were later alienated by her strict following of the Stalinite Communist line...
UNTIL this century, nearly every American statesman desired to be thought a conservative: Calhoun did, and so did Lincoln. [In this century] the American, vaguely discontented with the shape of society, took for his model liberalism: he imagined that it was some sort of the-middle-way policy, happily splitting the difference between individualism and collectivism. Thus amorphous in its beginning, twentieth-century American liberalism has become almost impossible to describe, embracing a curiour congeries of people. The word "liberal," in such circumstances, has lost any real meaning. The liberal's distorted myth of private self-sufficiency...
...Rory Calhoun is a killer wanted in Utah. Stephen McNally is a deputy sheriff who is bringing him in. Lost in the California hills, they stop at Brian Aherne's sheep farm. Brian is away, but Jean Simmons, his daughter, fills the office of host -and her blue jeans, too-very nicely 'Father taught at Oxford," she informs her guests. Rory asks politely: "That's the biggest isn't it?" "The world sickened m, Jean goes on, "and he [came out ] find peace and isolation." Then she reads to them from father's works...
...week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...
...Eric thinks that demand would soar from 800,000 tons to 2,500,000 tons a year if the papers were to expand to their prewar size. And he is so enthusiastic about U.S. prospects that last week he announced a third paper machine will be added to the Calhoun plant, making it the biggest newsprint mill in the South...