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Thrill-thriving U.S. radio commentators and newspaper columnists could hardly conceal their chagrin last week at the course of the coldly efficient, seemingly drab censure hearings against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But the hard fact was-and nobody knew it better than McCarthy-that the special committee headed by Utah's Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins was acting as the finally awakened conscience of the U.S. Senate...
...even if only from bench to field or field to shower room. In the broad domain of centerfield, Mays covers ground with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise of extra bases. He throws from center with a zip and an aim that have brought chagrin to the National League's brashest baserunners. "He's thrown men out at first like he was a shortstop," says the Giants' captain and shortstop, Alvin Dark. "He nails 'em at home like he was throwing from second...
...first they attacked head on. "In our business," says one of them (with some chagrin, now), "weather had never stopped us. We'd work through a blizzard or duster. So when we started on offshore oil, we said: 'To hell with the weather. What's a hurricane, anyway? Nothing but a big ol wind...
...Rifts. Next day Molotov rose to endorse Chou's remarks, remarking pointedly that for the first time "all the great powers" were taking part in an international conference. To the U.S.'s unconcealed chagrin, neither Britain nor France, nor any other European delegation, rose to challenge the Communists' assertion that it was a five-power conference, or to counter the onslaught on the U.S., or to support the South Korean plan...
...have a perverse sectional pride in our Southern demagogues, and have championed them as being considerably above those of other regions in any fair rating of aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...