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Tall, amiable, crinkle-eyed Tom Stokes, 46, one of the nation's shrewdest, most diligent and forthright political reporters, started work under Clapper at United News ("sort of the night side of the U.P.") in Washington in 1923. He says, "I really learned whatever I know about politics and what makes it tick from...
...candidate was tall, balding Gordon Dupee, 28, research director of the University's radio office, which produces Round Table. Presumptive reasons for the blackballing: 1) Dupee is a forthright conscientious objector (though 4-F); 2) only a short time ago, as a working student, he was the club's steward. The club council insisted, however, that Applicant Dupee had been rejected simply because he is "personally objectionable." Cracked a member: "Hell, everybody in the club is objectionable to everybody else in it-and rightly...
...these forthright words N.P.A. trampled on the cherished fetish of many a U.S. businessman and farmer. In place of rigid protectionism, the Association blue-printed its own plan for a booming postwar trade. Nub of the plan: Expansion of foreign trade by a scaling-down in U.S. tariffs. Said the Association: "The fear that competition with 'cheap foreign labor' would destroy American labor standards and the American standard of living is without real substance...
...Verein Einsamer Kriegerfrauen (League of Lonely War Women) wishes to remind German soldiers that there is still one commodity at home not on the ration list. Circulars disseminated by this forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...
...West, asked by a reporter from Yank how she felt about the pasting the critics had given her show, Catherine Was Great (TIME, Aug. 14), gave a forthright reply...