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Fire struck a third-floor ceiling of Jefferson Physics Laboratories at 6:20 p.m. yesterday. Firemen hustled over from their near by station in time to meet a squad of Physics students seuttling away from their ballistics experiment in the smoke-filled room...
With the 1950 elections in the offing, the Democrats swore that their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner would be the most stupendous political clambake of all time-a combination revival meeting and war dance calculated not only to inflame the faithful and extract $100 from each, but to terrorize and stupefy the G.O.P. By the appointed night last week, there could be no denying that they had indeed engineered something almost comparable to the Burning of Rome...
...federal admission tax, which 12,000 Republican diners paid at their recent $1-a-box supper, did not apply to the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. The reason: instead of selling tickets like the Republicans, the Democrats had accepted $100 contributions from the 5,300 guests and in turn had given them complimentary passes to the dinner...
...started simply enough. "Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart...
...Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., all networks). Address by President Truman...