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...bossism and unbridled corruption-but this time the Democrats have been successful in wrapping themselves in the mantle of reform. Hague's nephew, former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner's TV films shows three pairs of feet walking down cellar stairs, a reference to the former Republican state chairman's testimony that three gamblers once came to his basement recreation room to demand protection for their payoff. Meyner has flooded New Jersey's redolent air with a radio jingle to the tune of Carolina in the morning...
Dunster won its second House football game in a row yesterday afternoon by defeating Winthrop, 6 to 0. In the other game of the day, Kirkland pushed Lowell into the House League cellar by a 19 to 0 score...
Preacher in the Cellar. The worst of all this, says Lynd, is that the superprofessionals themselves are often "half-educated or uneducated." Having taken John Dewey's anti-absolutism as the only true absolute, they feel little compulsion to dig into the wisdom of the past. Thus, "one hears the value of classical studies denounced by men whose understanding is obviously uncomplicated by any personal acquaintance with the classics. Emotional conditioning is held to be more important than intellectually acquired information-by persons whose private stocks of information come almost exclusively from the occupational texts which Educationists write...
...More 1933s. German democracy, a sensitive plant at best, was not yet in mortal danger from evil men like Naumann. It might never be-yet a world that had ignored the doings in a Munich beer cellar in the '205 was not anxious to be duped again. The rise of neo-Naziism and the echoes it was getting from veterans, refugees, chauvinists, and a few big businessmen, served as a warning to the West: that in seeking German arms to solve the "Russian problem," it risks reviving the old "German problem...
...hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape with a buddy. The guards picked them up. Allen signed a confession, but his fellow escapee decided to hold out for a while. The Chinese put him in a damp cellar. Said Allen: "A few days later they carried him out of the camp. He was dead, and he had blood around his mouth. The Chinese told us that the rats in the cellar got at him. But I was in that place and there were no rats there ... It wasn...