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...uproar over the Cuban crisis, Buchwald added his own classification to Washington's newly manufactured categories of Hawks and Doves: "A dove was someone who was for a blockade of Cuba. A hawk was someone who favored bombing the Russian missile bases. We might as well confess right now, we weren't a Dove or a Hawk-we were Chicken...
Later, however, one woman does confess and all the truth comes out. Muscari is hailed as a great martyr "who taught us all to tell the truth...
...face, hands and back, the scars of Communist torture. His interrogator in a Siberian prison was Kamenev, who has become head of the Soviets. The Pope, in fact, is thus a failed product of (or triumphant escapee from) that satanic parody of the confessional-the brainwashing process wherein men confess to crimes they have not committed to men who have no power to absolve. Yet Pope and Commissar understand, and, in a deep sense, love each other as heroic representatives of opposing faiths...
...Thayer does profess to see a silver lining among all those thunderclouds. "Most advertisers," says he, "have said that any doubts they had about the value of newspaper advertising were dispelled by the strike." Perhaps. There are some advertisers, like Gimbels' Sales Promotion Director Carl Wagner, who confess that they are beginning "to think seriously about spending in other directions...
...reads every line before it is set in type. The editor-in-chief, constantly in close touch, does not try to impose his will from the top, but engages in the process of reaching the consensus. Putting it somewhat wryly, he said on that Columbia lecture platform: "I will confess that there are times when I think people ought to pay more attention to what I say. I just don't seem to be able to give orders effectively. But everybody is very nice to me. One thing people at Time Inc. seem to know is how to handle...