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Died. Hugh Fulton, 54, dogged chief counsel for Harry S. Truman's World War II watchdog committee on graft in defense contracts, a close Truman friend and speechwriter in the 1944 vice-presidential campaign, after which he returned to private practice; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...story. And perhaps, if it is honesty that is to be considered, no one has. The detectives are good cops, and convincingly so. But the author can see no other kind; even his bribe takers are merely roguish leftovers from an era when gaslight softened the ugly look of graft. An artist as skilled as Dougherty should know that the boys in blue come in other shades...
...times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary of Arabia, but it now must buy wheat and butter abroad. Exports of Yemen's top-grade Mocha coffee dropped from 25,000 tons to 12,000, and last year to 5,000 tons. Starved and graft-ridden, Yemen's 4,500,000 people began exporting themselves; some 500,000 emigrated. The religious as well as temporal leader, Imam Ahmad sternly forbade movies, stringed instruments and alcohol-anyone caught with liquor was publicly flogged...
...things have before. In open debate, U.S. Representative William Scranton permits a thin smile to flicker across his face while his opponent heaps on abuse. Then he rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front of the courtroom and on television to try and stop any kind of investigation . . . This crown prince of failure . . . who whined and cried and fought tooth...
William Oscar Saunders was in the old tradition: a personal journalist, a high-horsed crusader, a one-man crowd. For 30 years, as editor-publisher of a rural North Carolina weekly, he unremittingly fought graft, corruption, red-neck segregationists, pharisees of all kinds-and some 60 libel suits. Last week, in a book entitled The Independent Man, Saunders' only son, Keith, 52, now an aviation writer in Washington, recalls the turbulent career of one of the last of an all but vanished American journalistic breed. The Elizabeth City Independent, which Saunders launched in 1908 on a borrowed...