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Senator Joe McCarthy, whose specialty is combing the files for dirt in his one-man Red hunt, dusted off his typewriter to ask the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections to call off its study of the early McCarthy career. To Chairman Guy Gillette he wrote: "Over the past months it has been repeatedly brought to my attention that a horde of investigators, hired by your committee at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money, has been engaged exclusively in trying to dig up on McCarthy material covering periods of time long before...
...One of the most interesting phenomenons occurs when the students hold their rare but raucous parties. Several one-man committees are elected to supervise the entertainment. Almost all the students turn out and even the faculty is invited...
...Walk. Four years after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion...
...after Princeton's 53-15 drubbing of Cornell, even cautious Charlie Caldwell had to admit that it looked as if he were heading for another perfect season. In a spectacular one-man show, Kazmaier ripped through the undefeated Cornell line, averaging seven yards a crack, completed a phenomenal 15 out of 17 passes and personally accounted for 360 yards gained-70% of Princeton's total and more-by half as much again-than the entire Cornell backfield...
...Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...