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...Manhattan restaurant last fortnight, a hat-check man hung up a battered Western felt, then followed its owner to a table. "Pardon me, sir," said he, "Aren't you Mr. McNaughton of television...
...many another serviceman, he also had some white-hot observations to make on the inadequacies of fighting men in other outfits. Unlike most, Chaplain Sporrer, a Roman Catholic priest, got his accusations into print in an unsigned article (title: "The Shame and Glory of Korea") in the California newsmagazine Fortnight. Last week copies of Fortnight began popping up all over the Pentagon; most of them were being exultantly waved by officers of the U.S. Marine Corps...
Greenberg, associate editor of Commentary (TIME, Jan. 29), hustled over to another liberal weekly, the anti-Communist New Leader. Like the New Republic, which a fortnight ago trounced its British cousin, the New Statesman & Nation (TIME, March 19), for its anti-American line, the New Leader last week was delighted to further the latest bit of soul-searching on the left wing. It printed Greenberg's letter and added editorially: "Since the Nation has campaigned for many years against censorship in all its forms, we cannot understand why it should itself now indulge in this form of censorship...
...Communist Earl Browder has been in & out of enough courtrooms in his time to make him a pretty fair curbstone lawyer in his own right. When he went on trial in Washington a fortnight ago for contempt of Congress, he disdainfully brushed aside the aid of a court-appointed lawyer, argued his own defense and promptly put his finger on the soft point in the government's case...
When the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board patched up their long feud a fortnight ago, the peacemaker was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wiliam McChesney Martin Jr., 44, onetime Joy wonder of Wall Street and the Fair Deal. Because both Treasury Secretary ohn W. Snyder and Federal Reserve Chairman Thomas B. McCabe had taken such well-entrenched positions that neither could beat a graceful retreat, Snyder had asked Martin to help work out a compromise...