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...Washington." Cried he: "There are forces at work in this country today which would lead our people down the same pathway to the total state that was traveled by the people of Germany, of Italy, of Russia. Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace are birds of one feather. All three are kowtowing to minority blocs by advocating the so-called civil-rights program. This time they can not fool the people and especially the Democrats of the South. The Jeffersonian Democrats have spewed out of their mouths that mongrel outfit which captured our party at Philadelphia." That went fine...
...congress screamed to an end, the proCommunists introduced a resolution blaming the Western powers for provoking war. Some of the Western delegates would not vote for it. Feather-Smoother Ehrenburg snarled: "Idiots! Imbeciles...
Young Negro girls sat in the shade, "engaged on the interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...
...heroines of movies should weigh at most 118 pounds, and should try to have as much bone structure evident as health will permit and Harper's Bazaar will sanction. Suzy Delair breaks those rules and then some. She is as luxurious, as inviting, and as old-fashioned as a feather...
After two years as chief correspondent for CBS in the Middle East, George W. Polk, 34, was ready to go home. But first, he told friends, he wanted a feather for his cap: an interview with Communist Guerrilla Chief Markos Vafiades. It was a dangerous trip, but he was used to danger. Only a fortnight ago Polk had reportedly brushed off threats to kill him for his criticism of the Greek government...