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...racial-equality issue, hotter by the week, may hurt the Democratic Party hard in the 1956 Presidential campaign. Nearly all of the noisiest segregationists and desegregationists are Democrats. Political analysts believe that nearly 80% of Northern Negroes vote Democratic; on this vote rests the party's hope of victory in such important states as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. But the national party leans even more heavily on the South. Nearly half of the Democratic Senators and Representatives are from the South, and enjoy lush seniority...
During the roaring 1920s, Ed turned up on the noisiest and brashest of Manhattan's tabloids, the scandal-shrieking Evening-Graphic, where Walter Winchell was beginning his labors in the vineyard of gossip. The meeting of Sullivan and Winchell was explosive. Out of their four years together on the Graphic grew a feud that lasts to this day. Says Ed: "Winchell's all through-and I'm an expert on Winchelliana. I've followed him like a hawk. He's a dead duck. He couldn't be resuscitated by injections at half-hour intervals...
Long before Capitol Hill's noisiest business baiters got worked up about the WOCs* (TIME. July 18 et seq.), Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was working out a code of conduct to avoid conflict, or the appearance of conflict, between Government duties and private interests. Last week Secretary Weeks handed down his six-page code, warned his 45,700 employees that failure to observe it could cost them their jobs. Under his new rules, Commerce employees...
Papering Over. Labor's first disadvantage is its divided house. Nye Bevan is playing the good boy now. The party rift has been papered over with an innocuous manifesto composed at the leadership's bidding by two of the noisiest Bevanites : Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg...
...oldest and noisiest foes of Senator Joe McCarthy is Herman M. Greenspun, 45, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun (circ. 12,437). In the columns of the Sun, "Hank" Greenspun has repeatedly called McCarthy "a secret Communist" and a "disreputable pervert." Reluctant to sue, and thus give currency to Green-spun's charges, but goaded to do something, McCarthy's office last year asked the Post Office Department whether the Sun should lose its second-class mailing privileges (TIME, April...