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American. Still a gleam in the eye of Colonel Robert ("Bertie") McCormick. McCormick has been wrestling with his conscience ever since the Republican Party nominated Dwight Eisenhower, whom the colonel considers little better than a New Dealer. Strong factors operating to keep the colonel in the fold were the influence of his wife, who is reconciled to Ike (TIME, Aug. 11, the heritage of his Chicago Tribune, a bulwark of Republicanism since 1856, and family tradition ("My grandfather founded the Republican Party"*). Last week, however, the colonel decided that "I will be imposed upon no longer" and announced that...
...real Tom Sawyer was very like the real Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...
...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...
Ruppel, 48, an ex-Hearstling who came up in the rough & rowdy Chicago press, chopped off so many heads after he got to Collier's that some staffers began to quit even before they spotted the gleam of his ax. Even such contributors as Quentin Reynolds, Collie Small and Frank Ger-vasi made for the door. Editor Ruppel, one ex-Collier's staffer explained, had never before dealt with magazine writers, accustomed to writing pretty much as they pleased, and he often treated them just as if "he hated writers." But in the upper reaches of Crowell-Collier...
...From Merlin and the Gleam. Tennyson later wrote that "the Gleam . . . signifies . . . the higher poetic imagination...