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Communist subversion, he went on, "is a real and vitally serious problem," but the fight against it must be conducted "with facts, not hearsay and suspicion; with faith, not fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Attacks Senate Committee | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

John K. Fairbank, professor of History, accused the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee yesterday of "jumping to conclusions on the basis of hearsay evidence and scattergun accusations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Attacks Senate Committee | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...Feud. But Winchell's split with Lyons was mild compared to his old feud with Daily News Columnist Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan. Sullivan was sports editor of the old New York Graphic when the tabloid began Winchell's "Broadway Hearsay" column. After Winchell moved on to Hearst's Mirror at a fancy salary, Sullivan inherited his column spot. The feud officially began when Winchell accused Sullivan of columnar "blackmail" for inviting Heiress Barbara Hutton to throw a party for poor children in New York (she sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's the President Say? | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Some Were Hearsay. The fact was that the Hanley report was neither the carefully documented truth nor a deliberate propaganda maneuver. It was an Army blunder of appalling proportions. Under urgent prodding from Washington, Far Eastern Commander Matt Ridgway hastily dispatched two officers to Pusan to check Hanley's facts. The officers found that Hanley had thrown together reports from Korean refugees, captured enemy soldiers and hearsay to get his totals. He had only a handful of documented cases (the Pentagon, which eventually gets all such atrocity reports, had been able to establish only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Shocking Blunder | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...DuBois, a faded and schizophrenic Southern belle who sinks progressively into a romantic dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/25/1951 | See Source »

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