Word: flag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS! (278 pp.) -Max Shulman-Doubleday...
There are 100,000 known Shulmaniacs currently at large in the U.S. This cultish tribe spends easy ($3.50 per spindly copy of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and laughs easy-at soggy puns, campus wheezes, G.I. antics and leering badinage about the hot-and-cold war between the sexes. As a humorist, Max (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) Shulman is a kind of roadhouse Wodehouse, a breezy, rattlebrained funnyman whose books can and probably should be read with...
...cross and the flag were once good partners, Mejan maintains, but the Vatican dramatically switched its policy in 1951 with the publication of the encyclical Evangelii praecones (Heralds of the Gospel). In this encyclical the Pope specifically urged "a network of native priests" to protect the church in the event of nationalistic revolts in colonies. The Vatican's reply to Mejan's book: native clergy has been the church's aim for centuries, but only recently has it become possible on an important scale, thanks to modern communications between Rome and the world's missionary reaches...
Outwaving such ardent flag wavers as Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,420,000) canceled its new, highly touted contract for a weekly column by Muggeridge. The BBC scheduled, then canceled, several TV shows on which Muggeridge might have had a chance to answer his critics. Last week, in the unkindest cut of all, the BBC announced that it "does not wish to renew Mr. Muggeridge's contract" for 26 TV appearances a year. Protested London's Daily Mirror: "If all views must agree with the BBC (Better Be Careful) censors, nothing worthwhile...
Died. John McDowell, 55, acid-tongued, flag-waving sometime Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (1939-41, 1947-49), among those credited by Whittaker Chambers (in Witness) with hunting down the facts (while a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee) that led to the arrest and conviction of Alger Hiss; by his own hand (gunshot); at his home in Wilkinsburg...