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...radio forum later on in the week, several of Tokyo's most learned radio pundits discussed the latest phenomenon. "The Japanese will probably not discard their underwear as a result of the visit of the Honorable Buttocks-Swinging Actress," said one, "because it is much too cold. But because our people are quick to adopt fads, I'm sure that they will soon start swinging their buttocks...
Concerning your editorial on Republican foreign policy--I wish the CRIMSON would discard its mantle of petulant and partisan criticism of Republican policy. I'm sure it was a dreary day for the CRIMSON when funny-boy Stevenson was defeated by a popular here who did not have direct experience in politics. The CRIMSON seems unable to adjust to the fact that the Republicans are in office, and that the President has shown himself to be a sane and extremely able leader...
...said ("in an exclusive interview with the CRIMSON") that I was one of the Harvard professors "who have refused to say whether or not they are communists." This is just another sample of the senator's irresponsible, erroneous and character assassinating charges that have caused all intelligent citizens to discard the last remnant of confidence in the statement that he makes...
...this, plus the normal need to promote the successful juniors and discard the weaker ministers after two years in power, promised some changes before the Conservatives' annual conference in October. Churchill sometimes talks of quitting, but it is not the talk of a man who has a date in mind. A likelier possibility, which many powerful elements in the party urge, is that Eden will give up the Foreign Office and concentrate on being deputy Prime Minister. This would enable Churchill to stay in office, to shuck some of the routine responsibilities, and to insure the succession...
...almost automatically, she became a belter. She found herself "living" every song she sang, and had to discard such gloomy numbers as Stormy Weather because "it ruined me and it ruined the audience...