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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used by me if I had the experience which I now have." Unmollified, Morse badgered her about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...committee endorsement. Senate confirmation seemed likely to be routine. Then, day before the confirmation vote, Wayne Morse took the Senate floor, orated for 32 hours-through some 20,000 words-against Clare Luce. Commented Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush when it was over: "I doubt there has ever been a more severe and bitter attack upon an individual who has been nominated by a President for a high post in the service of this Government." Samples of the Morse attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Alaska, the Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Call of the Wild | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Junction on the Alaska Highway; a year earlier, for the same period, the tally was 2,433 vehicles, 5,725 people. Hotels are. doing better than ever; Anchorage's Westward Hotel and Traveler's Inn are booked through September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Call of the Wild | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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