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...Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that the rider merely outlaws a name, does not cope with overt subversive acts. "What conduct would the Senator make illegal by his amendment?" he asked Humphrey...
...greatest realists America has produced were men of the late 19th century: Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins and New England's Winslow Homer. The Eakins and Homer opposite are public favorites respectively at the Fort Worth Art Center and the Butler Art Institute (in Youngstown, Ohio). These are not subtle or even vastly skilled pictures, and they hardly relate to European traditions. Eakins' gawky and youths are a far cry figure from the bland, beautiful athletes of classical sculpture and Renaissance figure painting. Homer's schoolboys-like real ones-are more energetic than graceful...
Moody's death, just two weeks before the Aug. 3 primary, was a severe blow to the plans and hopes of Michigan Democrats. He was the party organization's choice for the nomination to oppose Republican U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson; his death left Detroit Board of Education Member Patrick McNamara, who is at odds with Michigan Democratic leaders, the only candidate for the nomination. Michigan Democrats admitted that McNamara has little, if any, hope of beating Homer Ferguson in November...
...Wait Till Next Year." From then on, Willie was on fire. Up against Boston's Speedballer Warren Spahn for the first time in the Polo Grounds, he teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking...
Republican Senator Homer Capehart promptly called the transaction another example of a "windfall" profit, i.e., one gained by inflating the value of the mortgage on the houses beyond their actual cost of construction and pocketing the difference. Builder Levitt insisted that his profit was no such thing. He defined a windfall profit as one made by a builder when he pocketed the difference between the mortgage and the building cost and still retained title to the property, thus giving him the right to additional profits from sales or rentals. In his case, said Levitt, the $5,000,000 was simply...