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...drawer New York Times political reporter and analyst James Reston yesterday found his usual procedure reversed as he answered questions fired at him by members of the Adams House Discussion Group...
...moving-in headaches. Ike Eisenhower found the bookcases empty in his White House office, and the pale green walls all but stripped of their pictures.* When Ike started to open his mail, he had to buzz for a letter opener. A little later he tugged in vain at the drawer of the broad mahogany presidential desk (which once belonged to Teddy Roosevelt). "Mr. Simmons." said Ike to Receptionist Bill Simmons, "is there a key to this desk? I can't get into this drawer." Simmons produced a key, Ike opened the drawer and pawed tentatively through some confidential papers...
...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...
...Pacific Northwest was not even a minor-league basketball power. Seattle University's team played in its own small gymnasium against obscure junior college teams, rarely rated a line outside the local papers. This year the team is the toast of Seattle, nationally ranked (16th) and a top-drawer drawing card in basketball from coast to coast. There are two good reasons for Seattle's sudden upsurge in popularity and prestige: Johnny O'Brien, the nation's alltime scoring champion (TIME, Jan. 5), and his twin brother...
...doing modish abstractions. A few months later, she was traveling in North Africa, and there, in the squalid, poverty-stricken towns, she discovered what she wanted to do. "I began to see people in a way I had never seen them before. I put the abstractions in the bottom drawer and started painting people...