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When a plain U.S. citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...ashes of San Francisco's famed 1934 general strike, labor got a new hero and West Coast business a new menace: lank, leftist Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen. From that time on, until the Nazi invasion of Russia changed his mind, no one in the U.S. carried a strike banner more lustily, or scowled more menacingly at U.S. employers than Harry Bridges...
...offered 33-to-1 against any newsman's bet that he would be killed. But professionally imaginative correspondents took little comfort from these odds, or from such grim expressions of goodwill as were offered by the commanding officer of the assault unit to which A. P.'s lank, drawling Don Whitehead was assigned; Said the C.O.: "We are ready to help you. . . . The people at home won't know what is happening unless you are given information and I want them to know. ... If you're wounded, we'll take care...
Boxcars, Bazookas. The end of last year lank, dandified General Somervell returned to Washington from Cairo, a grim man with a bad cold and a hell of a job ahead...
Sewell Avery was not there. At his desk sat Wayne Taylor; at Wayne Taylor's right sat lank, birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle, who had flown in from Washington at 4 a.m., rushed to Ward's after an hour's sleep at the Drake Hotel. His eyes were red-rimmed...