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Ralph Flanders found "much to praise and much to deplore" in McCarthyism. When McCarthy does an effective job of cleaning out the "cobwebs and spiders" left in the cellarway by the previous Administration, Flanders said, that is praiseworthy. "But let him not so work as to conceal mortal danger in which our country finds itself from the external enemies of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Words from a Quiet Man | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...apartment. Mrs. Feller clung to him-first to his head, then to one arm, finally to one leg. While she struggled, Feller threw open a window. She screamed and cried, "Don't jump!" He broke away, and within seconds his body lay twelve stories below in an open cellarway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Death of an Idealist | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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