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...those who feel reassured by the statistical underpinning beneath a TIME story, it might be noted that the Washington file alone for this week's cover story on Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman totaled 45,000 words. It took a heap of filing to describe something of what goes on in 4,844 rooms and what is said along the eight miles of corridors that make up Washington's second largest bureaucracy...
...story of Georg Meistermann's life under the Nazis follows the classic pattern of almost all of Germany's modern artists who were branded as decadent. He well remembers the night that he got back to his home in Solingen to find a heap of his paintings, which had been on exhibition, "standing in front of my door in the rain, having been thrown out of the gallery by the Brownshirts." But Meistermann's miseries had one positive twist. "In those days, my paintings reflected my darkened state of mind. They were full of heavy black lines...
...harpsichord lover of many years' standing, I have long advocated relegating the piano to the rubbish heap. You can therefore imagine with what relish I read your description of the students who can reduce a piano to kindling in five minutes...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
Western intelligence agencies knew all about Bartsch, however. His name had turned up in the cross reference data at the Berlin Documents Center, an archive of old Nazi membership files rescued from the storage heap of a West German papermill after the war. Resisting the temptation to spill the facts on Bartsch, intelligence bided its time. Fortnight ago, the rising Herr Bartsch became agricultural czar, and at this point out to West Berlin newspapers went full dossiers on the new Communist Cabinet Minister...