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...CRIMSON editor travelling through Austria this summer, Mr. Edelman was obliged to mall this dispatch from Salzburg, since, in four-power occupied Vienna, as he points out, "censors strike out all anti-Soviet remarks in letters...
Although Democratic Chairman William Boyle Jr. avowed that everything was on the up & up, some inexplicable coincidences, like burrs, were sticking to his well-tailored trouser legs. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with its nose close to the ground, spotted them and pointed them out last week...
...April 1949, when Boyle began drawing a salary from the national party, he had his name dropped from the Lithofold payroll. Last week his office said that Boyle got $1,500 out of his brief formal connection with Lithofold. (The Post-Dispatch said it was $8,000.) After Boyle's withdrawal, Max Siskind, his law partner, was put on the Lithofold payroll instead. Siskind has collected $13,000, is still collecting...
...Tactical Air Command, fought a bitter and losing battle. When Tactical Air was abolished as a separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay on to take charge of the Eniwetok atomic tests...
What did the dragon look like? In the Communist Daily Worker, where the words were first flung, and in such papers as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...