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...left-a characteristic failing. "I agree with the aims of the Communist Party," he kept repeating, "but I differ with Communists in the methods of achieving them . . . through murder, loot and arson." This soft indictment, the iteration that "in Communism there are certain good things," was no way to lick them. Now the Communists are emerging from the election as India's No. 2 party. There were signs last week that Nehru himself had begun to see his mistake...
...Wisconsin Federation of Labor and many newspapers, if he would try to rid the Senate of McCarthy. But he was afraid, he couldn't beat the man whose methods he has long deplored in private conversation. Following the more-ancient-than-honorable rule "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em," he will go on the ticket with Joe. Kohler's announcement left no strong opposition to McCarthy's bid for renomination and reelection. Joe was magnanimous about it all. "He [Kohler] would have made an excellent Senator," he said...
Hooton cautioned prospective customers against rushing to buy, however. "A certain percentage of students are inclined to lick their lips over things like this, but they still would probably be better off reading Havelock Ellis or Kinsey," he said...
...French Lick, Ind., Dr. Edwin Bennett Astwood of Tufts Medical School received the $1,000 Borden Award for thyroid research, and for finding ways to extract more ACTH from the pituitary glands of hogs...
Hollywood's moviemakers, who are beginning to admit out loud that they cannot lick TV, took another step toward joining it. Winding up a meeting of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, President (and onetime Georgia Governor) Ellis Arnall announced that the members had voted a unanimous endorsement of subscription television.* "Essentially, television is motion pictures," said Arnall bravely. "There is no real difference. And if subscription television is the way to make them work together...