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Operating as a one-man subcommittee, Joe McCarthy last week picked Up an old scent from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, subpoenaed some new witnesses, and came up with a striking instance of the flabbiness of the Truman Administration's loyalty program...
...posterior no larger than the palm of an irate parent's hand is rapidly becoming the nation's most popular towhead. As a comic-strip character, Dennis the Menace is practically a member of the family for the readers of 200 U.S. newspapers. But this little one-man gang has also become something of a sensation between book covers. Dennis the Menace, published last September, has already sold close to 140,000 copies. Even a publisher could guess the sequel to that: More Dennis the Menace...
...became one of the first members of the five-man AEC. Often disturbed by his colleagues' ideas on atomic security, e.g., the decision to give radioactive isotopes to Norway, Strauss became a kind of one-man opposition party within the commission. To Dissenter Strauss, more than any other man, the U.S. owes its possession of the hydrogen bomb. In 1950, after a long fight against the combined forces of prestige-heavy atomic scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and all other Atomic Energy commissioners save Gordon Dean, Strauss persuaded Harry Truman that the U.S. should proceed with construction...
...opinion," the Senator concluded, "there is no place for one-man investigations, or for peremptory summons to inquisition. We can and we must search out Communism and fight it to its death--but we must do this with the weapons of democracy, democratically applied...
...One-man Moviemaker Malaparte, who wrote, directed and composed the music for the film, has clothed his theme in vivid imagery. The picture is one long, visual lament, beginning and ending in the mountains among the crosses of Allied soldiers who died fighting in Italy. The images of death are everywhere: in the head of a butchered calf, in skeletons in glass-walled burial crypts, in the traditional Game of the Cross, with its procession of masked and black-robed figures. Malaparte uses sounds as freshly as sights: dramatically, the funereal, off-screen beating of drums dominates an entire dialogue...