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...weeks ago by the national commander of the American Legion, illustrate more clearly than any abstract editorial generalizations the present status of academic freedom in this country. Addressing two Legion posts gathered in New York's Madison Square Park for a Memorial Day service, Mr. Ray Murphy voiced the dire prediction that if this nation were ever overcome by Russia, "a lot of American citizens, most of them college graduates, would be ready, able, and willing to staff the new satellite of the Soviet...
...have a trepidation that something serious and dire was going to happen to the Army?" Chairman Mundt asked. Replied the colonel: "I have always been of the opinion that the American Army can take care of itself, but I don't like to see somebody take a hold of it and try to do something...
...Schine be assigned to special work in New York: by Cohn, 8; by McCarthy, 6. ¶Demands for special privileges for Schine: by Cohn, 9; by McCarthy, 2. ¶Threats that failure to give in to the demands would result in 1) extended investigation of the Army, or 2) dire consequences to Army Secretary Stevens and other Army personnel: by Cohn, 14; by McCarthy...
Like its opposite number in Manhattan, London's Communist Daily Worker regularly passes the hat among faithful party members to keep the paper from going under. Last week, after warning again of the paper's dire financial straits, the Worker's appeal struck a note of unwitting candor: "Our readers are lulling themselves into the belief that there is no danger at all. That is a desperate mistake. The point can and will be reached when the economies we are being forced to effect may result in a much worse paper...
...once a beau of Christopher's lady mother. But Scientist Christopher as firmly resists the P.M. on moral grounds as probably his mother did on matrimonial ones: arguing that spiritual matters, today, lag far behind scientific ones, Christopher will surrender his formula only in time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps because Playwright Morgan prefers the pursuit of ideas to a mere manhunt; the only remaining action...