Word: connecticut
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Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
Last week, following out a more or less normal routine, Mel Allen, 38, broadcast eight New York Yankees games for radio & TV (in New York, Philadelphia and Boston); spoke and played softball (pitcher) at three charity benefits (in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Long Island) ; recorded three Popsicle Clubhouse shows and made two Movietone newsreels. He also added another award to his big collection-this time, the "Mighty Monarch of TV" award ("whatever the hell that is"), presented, with two kisses, by television's Faye Emerson. Then early this week, he flew to Detroit for a more specific honor: announcing...
After a lapse of several years, during which he did not draw at all, Thurber is drawing again (see cover). He works with chalk on black paper, preferably just at sundown on clear days. About the porch of his Connecticut home, where he has his drawing board set up, drawings are stacked along with stove wood...
...mood that bristled like his dashing white mustache, promptly lit into the State Department. "A weak and confused foreign policy after Yalta," he added, ". . . is the primary cause for every international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days as Roosevelt's Ambassador to China, when he was sure that the Chinese Communists were mere agrarian reformers, not tied to Moscow. (Example: "The only difference between Chinese Communists and Oklahoma Republicans is that the Oklahoma Republicans...
Mortimer Smith, who once served as a Connecticut school-board member, is the author of some scorching criticism of U.S. public schools (TIME, Dec. 5, 1949). Writing last week in the Christian Century, he lit into the schoolmen's countercharge that their critics are mostly just religious zealots and neo-fascist superpatriots...