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...Newshen May Craig was worried about the Government's huge surplus butter stores (TIME, April 6), and Ike indicated that he was worried too. He hoped that Congress would give him the responsibility for finding outlets for the butter before it spoils. It would be a crime to civilization and to ourselves, he added, to allow it to spoil. He couldn't imagine anything worse when people are hungry...
...Maine Newshen May Craig noted that the President had referred in a recent speech to the "Korean war." Asked May: "Is that a manner of speaking or do you differ from Mr. Truman, who always called it a police action?" Said Ike: It could be his upbringing, but when you see American soldiers, called out under a draft, suffering casualties in the numbers they have been suffering, it must be called a war as far as he is concerned...
...high-minded yokel for his countrymen." But other papers, like the Los Angeles Times, thought Ike's firmness was just what was needed. Said the Times: At the conference he "invited the inference that policy in this Administration is not evoked by the questions of Washington correspondents." Newshen May Craig of the Portland Press-Herald and other Maine papers, who prefers to operate at a press conference like a prosecuting attorney, was disappointed. "He gave us his little lecture," said she, "then he dismissed...
...newshen in Washington and one of the capital's best political reporters, Columnist Fleeson gets her share of scoops for about 70 papers that carry her column. But her reputation depends more on her backstairs reporting of political plots & counterplots. Her pipelines into the Administration are so well placed that her columns on what the Fair Dealers are thinking often reveal what the Democrats will do long before they are ready to announce it or are quite sure themselves...
...dumped her, fast. Norma Lee, "disillusioned . . . and also much wiser," wrote a red-faced story for Page One. It was too late to stop the second installment of her Sunday series (which told how sharpers prey on beauty queens). It had already been printed and appeared this week. Said Newshen Browning: "I've finally learned why hardboiled reporters get that...