Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powell, who looks like Santa Claus with a shave, twice refused to testify before Senator Homer Capehart's Banking Committee. Last week, called up again, he refused again-to avoid incriminating himself. But other witnesses were more obliging...
...nickname, too: it is UM (for unmarried mothers). Most UMs are under 20, victims of a lie, or of violence, or possessors of an over-generous nature. One of the most tragic cases in St. Anne's history: a ravished child of eleven who still believed in Santa Claus and carried a rag doll to bed with her each night. For the rest, "we get a girl who has slipped," Sister Winifred says, "but who is trying to do what is right...
...Great Life (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBCTV) will do just about anything for a laugh, from dressing oldtime Cinemactor James (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Dunn up as Santa Claus to using a venerable bedroom-and-bath skit that has already been seen on CBS-TV in last year's Meet Mr. McNutley. Starring William Bishop and Michael O'Shea as a pair of Korean war buddies who have moved to Los Angeles for jobs, the show is produced by writers Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat at the Hal Roach studio. Bishop plays the handsome leading...
...taxpayer. Foreign aid has too long been considered a sacred cow opposed only by Communists. When will Congress realize that the free world must stand on its own feet, not ours? Friendship isn't a purchasable commodity. Why shouldn't our policy be: friends to all, Santa Claus to none...
Isaacs blames newspaper editors more than reporters for the evil because "they refuse to take this seriously [or] fail to see any corrupting influences. One editor said, 'Let's preserve some of the niceties of this rugged life. Too many people have been taking potshots at Santa Claus...