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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl named Clare Bakash said that she and her family depended on TIME for a complete report on world news-especially because she could not count on receiving foreign news broadcasts clearly at home. Amik Zaharkian, 13, an Armenian, told me that he admired TIME'S style very much, but he thought that you had to be 'very well educated to understand it.' Steven Bochner, a 15-year-old Czechoslovakian, asked me to tell the editors to please put more foreign news in the overseas edition...
While his congressional colleagues stayed discreetly in the background, Hickenlooper was left alone to explain just what he meant by Lilienthal's "incredible mismanagement" of AEC (TIME, June 6). If his first week's evidence was any sample, he didn't have much to go on. Riffling through a pack of file-index cards, Hickenlooper could produce only two examples: that excessive turnover among AEC employees showed "a startling lack of continuity"; that Lilienthal had shown "brazen effrontery" by granting emergency security clearances to 3,280 AEC employees, pending a full FBI check...
...sometimes let people know it. A couple of the fellows who took Comparative Lit. 24 and Ed. 4 with him would testify to that. He always had an answer before the rest of them. He was quick, articulate and by the standards of the football players and their friends, much too opinionated. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to take him down...
...condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers." Reporters either deleted this section entirely or moved it much lower in their stories. The result, for most readers, was a simple statement that Communists should be banned from the teaching profession--top educators had come around and were finally siding with the "Little Dies" committees...
Wylie's mistake (a good money-marking mistake, of course) was to put these ideas into a cheap shiny novel. "Generation of Vipers" said it all much better, years ago, without the girls...