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...TIME. "I had spent all of 1948 on the campaign trail with Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Tom Dewey," recalls Bell. "I was the only member of the Washington bureau who was totally ignorant of the case, and I felt none of the emotion that appeared to grip my colleagues who had covered the Hiss story on Capitol Hill. It was precisely for that reason that I was picked to report the trial." For TIME and Bell, the story posed special problems: Chambers had been a writer and senior editor at TIME (editing back-of-the-book sections...
...intelligence I had so little grip...
...quick scribble, but for clear, developed, informative drawings. The major names of 17th century Dutch painting are there: Hendrick Goltzius, Aelbert Cuyp, Jacques de Gheyn, Pieter Saenredam, Hendrick Avercamp, Ferdinand Bol. So are scores of lesser figures, known mainly to the specialist, but always represented by drawings of considerable grip and finesse...
...lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the feeling of not knowing whether he was north or south or blue or gray, and became a captain in a raiding force that was an adjunct to Stonewall Jackson's third cavalry, simply because he could make more money. After Jackson...
...group of small, dirt poor farmers met in a ratty, ramshackle cabin in Lampassas County, Texas, to discuss their future. Those men and women, the founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when...