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...Congressman, Nixon went at his job with the same intensity, industry and ambition that he had shown before and has shown since. He pushed the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss to the conclusion that eventually sent Hiss to prison; then, knowing the perils of subversion as did few others, he made pointed and effective use of the subversion issue in his campaigns. His intensity in the use of that issue inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow...
...Hissing Snakes. Maria Callas clawed her way to her present eminence with a ruthless ferocity that awes her enemies and has left her few professional friends. Some have helped her on her way. But from the first the lonely, fat girl from Manhattan saw herself pitted single-handed against a world of enemies. In her triumph, she takes fierce pride in her defiant self-reliance. At La Scala supporters of a rival diva hiss her regularly. It only arouses Callas to cold fury...
...Third, and last, World War, in which atomic and nuclear weapons might wipe out Man himself. Could Stevenson have afforded to be this? We doubt it. Would the Republicans have accepted the ensuing "competitive coexistence" if it had come from a Democrat who had been attacked for giving Alger Hiss a character reference? We doubt it. Would Senator McCarthy have refrained from shouting "traitor"? We doubt...
...Republicans have taken our country so far down the road to destruction that "with God's help, the Democrats must save us," it is good of Harry to comfort us with the heartening news that we have loyal, upright citizens left in the persons of Alger Hiss and Nathan Gregory Silvermaster [Sept...
...There are no burning issues: Truman, McCarthy, time for a change, mink coats, depression, boys in foxholes and Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's own high-level campaigning. There are, however, some intense regional issues, e.g., the farm program in the Midwest, local unemployment problems in such states as Indiana and Michigan, segregation in the South...