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...Gestapo? In a pamphlet called "How to Capture a University," Beaty charged that "a certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
...nation and lugubriously pictured the U.S. housewife hunched over her electric stove, the burden of taxes weighing heavily on her shoulders. Up from behind a paper-littered desk rose Colorado's Republican Senator Eugene Millikin to trade political insults. (Douglas chided the G.O.P. for a recent Government pamphlet on Ways to Cook Rabbit. Millikin recalled a Democratic treatise on the love life of a watermelon.) Then Gene Millikin stumped to the rear of the chamber, puffed on a cigarette, and licked his lips in anticipation of a good fight. He watched Douglas for five minutes, then stumped...
After a careful study of the Randall Report on foreign trade, a group of 17 top economists condemned it in a pamphlet published last week for its "want of basic philosophy and for its failure to assert American leadership or to enlighten the American people as to their international responsibilities and opportunities. [It is] not a document from which the nation could derive inspiration...
Hardly any ex-Glee Club member who sang under Davison can forget his manner of conducting. In his pamphlet "The Reformation of the Glee Club" published in 1922, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 described a typical Davisonian rehearsal: "As you slip into a seat at the rear of the room, you hear, cutting through the deep, swelling tones of the chorus, Davison's sharp voice: 'Now's your chance! That's it! Good! First rate! This is a bad place; look out for it! That's the way, basses! Eyes! Eyes...