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...accused Kefauver of befriending left-wing Northerners, supporting the Supreme Court segregation decision, and, worst of all, being an "internationalist." Unlike his 1948 coonskin-cap barnstorm ing, Kefauver's campaign was dignified; he soft-pedaled his internationalist and gang-busting lines, stressing what he had done for Tennessee. By campaign's end there was evidence that Pat Sutton had talked too much. During one talkathon, he had labeled a friend of Kefauver as a "known Communist." Later he apologized, but that did not stop Kefauver's friend from hitting him with a $1,500,000 slander suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leases Renewed | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...sensually melancholy battles of the sexes, so arrestingly Moravian that it scarcely need have been signed. Maurice Richardson begins Way Out in the Continuum, a chillingly funny satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale of a mousy English teacher whose personality splinters until finally he enters his classroom "stark naked except for his spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pursuit of Quality | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Carroll E. Mealey. former Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue, await ing trial for tax evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Keeping Up with the Nunans | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Occasionally, the answers are fairly amusing, but the panel (Playwright Marc Connelly, Actor Carl Reiner, Singer Denise Lor) floundered a good deal on the open ing show and were saved only by the uninhibited Gallicisms of the guest panelist, Actress Denise Darcel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Imitators | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Citation: "Confident that democracy rests on conscience guided by God, he with stood the Quisling government ... He summoned all Norway to stand, and hav ing done all to stand, proclaiming: 'The body they may kill ; God's truth abideth still Edgar O. Lovett, first president of Rice Institute............ LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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