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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slow swelling of resolve in many hearts. It is reached not at the green-topped tables of state, but at the corner store and the village market, at the tea table and the union meeting. It is taken by corporations examining their books, by housewives scribbling a market list, by farmers squinting at a crop of wheat. Until the voice of a free people is heard clearly, few major decisions of statesmen can carry the power of democracy's full force...
Some of the committees which Graham joined were Communist-front groups. He sponsored the 1940 and 1941 conferences of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born which is now on Attorney General Tom Clark's list of subversive organizations. In other groups he has joined, Communists have climbed aboard. Most notable of these was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, of which Graham became the first chairman in 1938. The House Committee on Un-American Activities called it "perhaps the most deviously camouflaged Communist-front organization...
...years, Harvard College had never seen a smarter bunch of boys. Last week, the college reported that 35% of the 1948 enrollment had made the Dean's List (B averages or better) compared to 26% during the '30s. Furthermore, only 2%, instead of the usual 5%, had had their "connections severed"(Harvardese for being kicked out of school...
...worthwhile tennis tournament (at Southampton). Then Pancho stalked into Forest Hills in September and pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, to become National Amateur champion. Last week, when the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association made public its rankings for 1948, Pancho's name topped the list...
Last week, the casualty list continued to grow. Edgar Bergen announced that he was leaving NBC and radio after Dec. 26, and taking Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd with...