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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken a little under three months. There had been a great deal of pushing, pulling and hauling on wrong ends. At the last minute the House, at the prodding of Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin Edward O'Konski, had added Franco's fascist Spain to the list of beneficiaries. Administration and Senate leaders, appalled by this blunder which gave Communists something to shout about, had got Spain yanked out. Bravely, at week's end, ERP floated...
Some London newsmen, foregathered in a Fleet Street pub one day last week, got talking about the great news stories still to be written. Pretty soon they had a list. Their list, in order of importance, as reported by Overseas News Agency: 1) the discovery of Hitler alive, and an exclusive interview with him; 2) an exclusive description of the first scientific creation of living matter with a free will of its own; 3) coverage of the first journey beyond the earth, either to the moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
Cliffe custom prohibits attendance of present chairman at the joint meeting, at which their successors are named. Prior to the gathering, however, current heads submit a list of committee members for next year and are requested to recommend a succeeding chairman...
...mass demonstration for Eisenhower on Tuesday, April 27 leads the list of boosting activities planned by Students for Eisenhower, a recent addition to the rapidly swelling ranks of political clubs in the College...