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...novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with so many revisited home towns as the American...
...suite. Mr. Sam, weary of swapping offices, told Joe to stay on in the Speaker's rooms. After 32 years in the Senate, Georgia's patriarchal Walter George, senior Democrat since the 1952 defeat of Tennessee's fiery-eyed Kenneth McKellar, will win the prestige of Mc-Kellar's old title, Senate President pro tempore...
McCarthy are now even, we think, in an unfortunate conflict. The President has pulled the prize boner of going out of his way to congratulate Sen. Arthur V. Watkins for the hatchet job Watkins' committee did on McCarthy. Sen. Mc Carthy in turn has pulled the boner of questioning, by inference, the President's enmity to Communism. Now that these two eminent fighting cocks have given each other their lumps in public, how about a reconciliation, followed by a joint and sustained effort to unify their party? Neither Eisenhower nor McCarthy may believe this in the heat...
Counter-petition groups also began to appear, e.g., the League of Twenty Million Americans for the Censure of Mc Carthy, started in Palmer, Mass, by Mrs. Winifred Swanson, a 30-year-old housewife who had never before belonged to anything but a sewing circle...
...however, and the next day they began arriving in Washington. From McCarthy's own Wisconsin came a pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders...