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...Word & a Blow. In Gallup, N.M., Hotel Clerk Don Collins saw an elk's antlers through the window, grabbed his pistol, fired twice, shouted "I got him!"; rushed outside to find that he had shot the hotel's stuffed elk, de-mothing in the sunshine...
...Navy Department's Elk Hills oil deal, through which valuable Government oil lands were to be "given away" to Standard Oil of California...
Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish writers. But, like himself, they were "Semites far away from Semitism . . . whose only synagogue was Broadway." When he became famous, Ben was outraged if friends mentioned antiSemitism. "I said that it was not Jews who were being discriminated against but obviously individuals too ill-favored for social appeal." Ben filled...
...Last week Columnist Pearson printed a list of his stories which had been denied, "but turned out true." Among them: his beats on the General Patton soldier-slapping (TIME, Dec. 6), the Navy's Elk Hills oil deal (TIME, July 5). † He also has felt Presidential censure, on his "moronic little king" broadcast...
Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies. A man of determined moderation, his unexceptional life has not even been exceptionally dull. A congenital Republican, he is also an Elk, a Mason, a Presbyterian, a Sigma Nu. He smokes cigarets absently, drinks Scotch socially, golfs casually...