Word: herring
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...President, in his weekly press conference, had another label to stick on the investigations of Communist activities, which he once called a red herring. This time it was "hysteria...
...turtledoves and chaffinches. After they had joined gleefully in the final Coaching Song, there was nothing left to do but applaud themselves and the opera's makers. Curly-haired Composer Britten and Librettist Eric Crozier (who also wrote the book for Britten's third successful opera, Albert Herring*) had to take a dozen curtain calls...
...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
Until last week, the American Communist Party had pretended to be a homegrown movement, with no roots in Moscow. President Truman, who only three months ago had denounced the Communist spy investigation as a red herring, had the word to describe U.S. Communists. Said he: "I have no comment on the statements by traitors...
...Withdrawal of President Truman's charges that the investigation was a red herring...