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...fooling me. This committee [is] not seeking to get the names of bad security risks, but seeking rather to find out the names of my informants so they can be kicked out of the State Department tomorrow." From the other side of the table Connecticut's Brien McMahon shouted back, white with rage: "When you start making charges of that sort about me, you had better reflect on it, and more than once...
There was the sound, for example, of 7,000 letters dropping into Senator Brien McMahon's mailbox. They came from people anxious for peace and hungering for quick solutions. Most of the letters endorsed McMahon's proposal of a $50 billion global Marshall Plan (TIME, Feb. 13) that would promise Russia and other nations fistfuls of U.S. dollars if Russia would only promise to outlaw the atom bomb. Many seemed to think that there was no other alternative: it was either McMahon's proposal or what he called "an attack that might incinerate 50 million Americans...
...ducking a question on international atomic controls. He described the atom bomb as "a gadget built up in the public mind to much more than its military value," although he made no bones about it being a terrible weapon, and suggested that the present furor--particularly over the McMahon proposals--might be a similar search for "a gadget for peace." He deplored the tendency for some people "who get attention" to overplay the strength of the atom as a weapon...
Left wing Bill Timpson converted Shorty Minot's goal-mouth pass at 5:10 for the game's first score. After Arnie Oss, Crimson nemesis who scored five goals in the teams' first meeting, retaliated at 6:45, Harvard began to pepper Dartmouth goalie McMahon...
...Preston blasted a 30-footer past the dazed McMahon, followed quickly by breakaway goals by Bob DiBlasio and Joe Kittredge. In the second period, Captain Myles Huntington back-handed the Crimson's fifth goal and Doug Anderson scored in a scramble in front of the Dartmouth...