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...parlor quite near St. Anthony's. And tonight, as Paddy Young, he is going against Laurent Dauthuille for a maximum of ten rounds in the feature event at Madison Square Garden. Dauthuille is a 12 to 5 favorite, but my callments are with Paddy. I wish him luck, and commend to him the fact that Dauthuille, as a Frenchman, is also apt to got excited...
...concerned about war and the threat of war. After careful word-weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on the Korean war. "An act of aggression has been committed . . . Armed attack as an instrument of national policy is wrong. We therefore commend the United Nations, an instrument of world order, for its prompt decision to meet this aggression, and for authorizing a police measure which every member nation should support...
...Wisconsin he got many a cheer from people who approved his target so much that they didn't criticize his aim. At Wisconsin's Republican convention, 2,500 delegates applauded long & loudly his keynote speech on Communists in Government. Then they whooped through a resolution to "heartily commend and encourage" McCarthy's efforts. Only one man got up to object. Lawyer Perry J. Stearns, a candidate for the Senate seat of Alexander Wiley, shouted: "We are Republicans but Americans first," and accused McCarthy of producing "evidence entirely void of probative value." Boos filled the hall...
...Franklin Brannan, a plain, earnest, city lawyer from Denver, who is the 14th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.* A sturdy (185 lbs.) six-footer with inquisitive brown eyes, a hard-to-ruffle temperament and a scrubbed look, Charlie Brannan had neither farming experience, pocketfuls of votes nor campaign dollars to commend him when Harry Truman plucked him from a career post as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the spring of 1948 and raised him to the Cabinet. Destined as Harry Truman seemed to be at that time for political retirement, the President apparently could not find anyone else to take...
...knowledge that she's got at least one good revue to her credit this season. The Hartmans, Grace and Paul, are back again in a new intimate revue, and it's one that's a pleasure to watch all the way. "Tickets, Please!" has a good many features to commend it, and a full list of the credits would read very much like The Playbill...