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While I deplore McCarthyism, we must give him credit for giving the Jessups, Lattimores and Achesons the limelight and an opportunity of exposing themselves, perhaps not as Communists, but for certain as mere second-guessers in a game that may well be the life and death of the whole free world...
Though the brothers Taft have often differed, brother Charlie misses no opportunity to applaud brother Bob. (In 1940 Charles Taft masterminded the campaign which almost won Bob the presidential nomination.) Bob seems content to leave Charlie out of the limelight. Bob's Republican orthodoxy recently moved him to say that if Senator Joe McCarthy is nominated for re-election he would support him, but underlined: "I never take sides in a Republican primary." At the news of brother Charlie's intentions, he maintained his frigidly correct attitude. Said he: "I'm not going to take any part...
Fortunately, Top Banana does not depend on the usual musicomedy assets. Its music is discreetly commonplace; its love story classically dull. And no doubt, limelight-hogging Jerry Biffle saw to it that the sets, the costumes, the chorines should have no distracting charms. Top Banana is a musicomedy that owes its liveliness to TV, its laughs to burlesque, its success to indefatigable Phil Silvers...
...Charge. McCarthy's jump from obscurity to the national limelight began nearly two years ago, when he made a speech in Wheeling, W. Va. He said: "I have here in my hand a list of 205, a list of names made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Next day in Salt Lake City, he declared: "I hold in my hand the names of 57 card-carrying Communists" working in the State Department. Ten days later, on the Senate floor...
Water Mine. A few years ago, when gold shares were falling and uranium was coming into the limelight, one mine changed its name from Samar Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd. to Oak Ridge Uranium Mines Ltd. Neither gold nor uranium has yet been mined by this company; its main shaft is full of water...