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Shortly after 1 a.m., in the rear of the presidential box at the McDonough gym inaugural hall, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles Erwin Wilson* talked about the Wilson crisis. Ike seemed vehement, once made a table-pounding motion with his doubled fist. Wilson was having his say too. Later, Eisenhower's aides said the President told Wilson that he wanted him to do whatever was necessary to qualify as Defense Secretary. A few hours later, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey heard from friends on Capitol Hill exactly what Wilson would have to do: sell his General Motors stock...
Indictment. In the summer of 1951, the state's "little Kefauver" Crime Investigating Committee found plenty of evidence of gambling and vice in Galveston County, but the probe soon died of official inaction. Ragsdale, an ex-Air Force staff sergeant and novelist (The Big Fist), who moved to Texas City three years ago after working on several west Texas dailies, went to work. He sent reporters out to visit the joints, ran descriptions of them and their operators. At one point Ragsdale led Texas Rangers to 320 slot machines hidden in a barn, to the chagrin of Ranger Chief...
...Czech prosecutor, in summing up his case against 14 defendants, 11 of whom were Jews, said "They are rats, snakes, and cannibals, and the verdict of the judges must fall like an iron fist on this nest of snakes without mercy." Zionism was listed as one of their major crimes...
...Corrupting" comic books, lurid magazines, and inexpensive reprints of more costly editions today fall beneath the censorial hand, a hand that has so far restrained itself, but that could assume the viciousness of a mailed fist. It is an "unseen censorship" working behind the scenes and, in Boston as in other cities, making its way unimpeded...
MacLeish's greatest achievement, I believe, is his latest published long poem, The Trojan Horse. In it, he has overcome his inability to write on current political threats without beclouding his work with fiery fist-shaking. Following the ancient tragedy, he depicts the horse as a menace, which only a mad girl and Helen realize. The people, confused by the symbol for which it represents, denounce the two women and admit the horse to Troy. MacLeish is one of few poets who has expressed a modern dilemma with such vitality, deftness, and fearlessness. If the task of poetry...