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Died. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 63, descendant of Scotland's first King Robert Bruce (the spider watcher), brother of the late Actor Nigel Bruce, soldier, adventurer, author (No Escape from Adventure), and Canada's only titled newspaper columnist (the Vancouver Province); of a coronary thrombosis; in Vancouver...
...Bill Knowland has no known pangs of conscience. He has always made it abundantly clear that his primary obligation is to the Republican Party, not to Ike. Even so, it is the Republican Party that Knowland may in the end hurt most, for, as Conservative Columnist David Lawrence (see PRESS) said last week, "If the leadership of President Eisenhower is forsaken by an influential bloc in his party, the 'modern Republicans' will have no place to go in 1960 but with the Democrats. They will prefer a 'modern Democrat' to a Republican who deserted Eisenhower...
...daily press, throughout the great budget debate of the past three months, only one influential voice has been raised in aggressive, consistent and all-out support for the Eisenhower budget. That voice comes not from the ranks of "Modern Republicanism" but from Washington Columnist David Lawrence, a hardheaded conservative who is the respected oracle of the far right and the most widely syndicated political pundit...
While some Ike-minded publishers and columnists sat back in unsupporting silence, and others have heaped invective on Government spending or, like Publisher John S. Knight (TIME, May 20), even turned the attack into an offensive on Eisenhower foreign policy, Conservative Lawrence, 68, has systematically and unreservedly defended the budget against the meat ax of Congress. Well before the White House itself stirred into belated action to save the budget. Columnist Lawrence was atop the barricade, shouting "Charge...
...antipathy to high taxes" that have stirred budget "hysteria." In the budget debate's first round, said Lawrence, the press generally misinterpreted or overplayed Treasury Secretary Humphrey's celebrated press conference warning of a depression "that will curl your hair" unless the 1958 budget were drastically reduced. Columnist Lawrence, after studying the press conference transcript, pointed out that too many news stories had failed to bring out that Humphrey was referring not to the current budget but to the consequences of continued high spending and high taxation "over a long period of time...