Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Which, then, is the threat in our own time: purges, conformity, or myopia? According to Mr. Hutchins, the threat comes not from purges themselves, but from the conformity which they induce. The response is therefore not action but investigation...
Congratulations. to Mr. Alec Gushing on his wit rather than his memory. It seems that he or someone forgot the prologue to the Squaw Valley drama. Might it not have been more accurate to mention the name of Marti Arrougé, the young Basque who trod the warm earth of Squaw Valley through many young summers following the bands of his father's sheep, who lost his only brother in one of its clear lakes and whose nimble skis have caressed its every slope? It was Arrougé who was the original partner of Wayne Poulsen; together they supplied...
...People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on the golf course, the duck blinds or the quail hunts." George Meany, not the thin-skinned sort, tossed off a variation on an old pun: "I haven't seen any of the habitués of the sunny beaches, or the sons of habitues...
...When Newton repeated Snyder's answer ("All legitimate news of the Pentagon is available to the press") to a group of Pentagon reporters, it generated "a long, loud and unanimous hoot of derision." Said Newton: "Not a single voice among working Washington correspondents was raised in support of Mr. Snyder...
Romance flowers for Mr. Asano and Mrs. Jacoby on board ship for Japan. A grieving widower, he has lost a daughter at Hiroshima; she, a son fighting the Japanese. What seems to make Mrs. Jacoby irresistible to Mr. Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...