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...year-old Smuts lost his . own seat by 224 votes. He tendered his resignation as Prime Minister to Governor General Gideon Brand van Zyl, who asked the Nationalist leader-myopic, paunchy Dr. Daniel François Malan - to take over. Dr. Malan (pronounced mah-lahn) is a onetime predikant (minister) of the Dutch Reformed Church, was once a Sundayschool pupil of Smuts. Malan left his pulpit to edit a Nationalist paper, has been in politics ever since...
...week's end, myopic little Dmitri Shostakovich marched to the platform. He knew his lines well: he had been bawled out before. Said he: "I accept the Central Committee's decree, particularly regarding myself, as stern but fatherly care. ... A worthy reply . . . may be achieved by work-stubborn, creative, joyous work ... on new compositions which will find a path to the heart of the Soviet people." Shostakovich was the last to recant; now all Soviet composers could go on with their joyous labors...
Said shaggy Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, as he presented the research award to Dr. Houssay in Boca Raton: "We regret that a few myopic citizens in our sister Republic of Argentina have tried to black out the Houssay scientific beacon at Buenos Aires. But the Houssay beacon still guides and cheers many workers on the frontiers of biology and medicine in every land...
...unnecessary to express himself when there is nothing to say--unless he possesses the imagination and ability of the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith, who is probably the best working sports columnist of the day--may sound like heresy, but it's undoubtedly better than myopic gaves into an athletic crystal ball...
...playing tweedledum to the Republicans' tweedledee. With such figures as Henry Cabot Lodge, William Stratton and John W. Bricker representing the majority party in the Congress, the democratic party can furnish an effective opposition only by reassuming its liberal character and discarding the leadership of Bourbon Democrats and myopic members of the Truman coterie...