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Photographers, barred from the hearing room except for recesses, had a hard time cracking Witness MacArthur's studied immobility of feature. Suddenly one lensman tried an old stunt. "General," he said, "your tie's crooked." As the general looked down, 40 flashbulbs went off.
Tito was cuddling up to capitalism. Last week Belgrade's Borba, mouthpiece of Tito's Communist Party, tut-tutted portentously over the past five years of Soviet-type planning and production. "There were, for instance," reported the paper, "ladies' overcoats manufactured by the Naprijed factory that have...
The big Kefauver crime hunt was over -at least for the time being Senator Kefauver himself relaxed, showed his daughter how to ride a pogo-stick. The country still had crime on its mind, and if half the activity of last week was genuine, it was going to make life...
New Wolf. Oldtimers at San Quentin still remember the surgery The Croaker did on "Wolf" Blaisdell, a snarling, point-eared dope peddler whose viciously lupine features were matched only by his surly character. One day, shortly before his release, the Wolf came to Dr. Stanley and with unwonted meekness begged...
No Blame. Most of the editorial writers, who sought to fix the blame for the scandal, vibrated noisily in their own keys. The good grey Times (which has never printed tables of basketball's betting figures) thought "the home, the neighborhood, the campus, the college" at fault for fostering...