Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's Great Post War Red Scare, which has already smeared the good name of David E. Lilienthal in the minds of political illiterates, will soon focus upon the Hearst-coined issue of "Communism in the Colleges." A brief but lurid orgy looms; if the House Un-American Activities Committee acts with customary discernment, faculty and undergraduates the country over may look forward to hearing they are "subversive." One may anticipate such an edifying seene as Ralph Barton Perry in pitched verbal battle with J. Parnell Thomas. So high is the current national pulsebeat on the Communist issue, moreover, that...
Stairway to Heaven. British fantasy, imaginative if overblown, with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
...Rory Calhoun, 24, under contract to David 0. Selznick for two years, is an ex-lumberjack, an ex-boxer. He was "discovered" on a riding ranch. His chief asset: he suggests a younger, more dangerous Victor Mature...
Much more is at Senate battle over David E. Lilienthal than the mere confirmation or rejection of another nominee for an administrative post. In most of the opposition to the President's choice as chairman of the new U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the irresponsible name-calling and the disturbing display of political opportunism threaten the very development and management of atomic power in this country. Moreover, the rapidly-growing tendency to impugn a man's qualifications for a position, simply because he holds opinions either to the political left or right of the accuser, is an instrument as dangerous...