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...Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched a Soviet...
...capitalism as it was in 1867 when Marx published Das Kapital, and most anti-Communists answer with a theory of capitalism developed more than 150 years ago by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. The reason for this, says Adolph A. Berle Jr. in The Twentieth Century Capitalist Revolution (Harcourt, Brace; $3), is that "no adequate study of twentieth-century capitalism exists . . . No one, it seems, has seriously undertaken to restate the actual practice of American capitalism as it has developed since, let us say, 1930, describing its operations and results, and readjusting theories to conform to fact...
...already thrown confusion into the Communist ranks. The bosses of the Communist machine in Paris are deeply disturbed. They sent emissaries to several provinces with explicit orders to fight the confusion in their ranks by explaining that "Mendès-France is the last and slickest of all capitalist stooges...
...pamphlets. Now the Communists were smooth fellows, showing off automobiles, caviar, medical equipment and agricultural implements and talking grandly (though also vaguely) of delivery dates and competitive prices. They were courteous as could be. "After all," explained a Red trade weekly, "politeness and hospitality have nothing to do with capitalist customs. Both were practiced in the ancient days." At Izmir, record crowds of Turks were enticed by shiny Russian goods and a natural curiosity about their hated neighbors. A Turk examined a Russian automobile, turned to his companion and said: "They, like us, also came back from nowhere. Now look...
...Negroes as its racist opposite. But last week Entertainment Columnist David Platt of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker discovered that no party-liner dares wander from that particular line, even for an instant. In printing a list of "lavatory literature," i.e., pocket-size picture magazines published by the "capitalist press," Critic Platt made the mistake of including Jet, the breezy Negro weekly (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952) that can lift a skirt with the best of them (e.g., People Today, Bold, Tempo). Platt was promptly brought to task by a letter from a couple of Worker readers accusing...