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...brother told him by transpacific telephone from Ottawa. Whereupon Specialist Girard, who had won considerable public sympathy in Japan by virtue of having a Japanese fiancee, sacked his Japanese lawyer (selected by him and paid for from U.S. funds) and flirted with the idea of playing to the hilt the new role that his brother and the headline hunters had mapped...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...
...Seattle Times (circ. 208,224), though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...
...Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop...
...slowly, but not quietly, into the sunset of graduation, the observer of the Harvard political scene notes the possibility that the Harvard Young Republican Club may undergo a serious metamorphosis. The traditional role of the HYRC ex-President, a role which both these gentlemen have played up to the hilt, has involved the former chief's taking a prominent part in the annual pre-election squabble the club puts...