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...spell his heirs had launched a busy peace offensive. They talked of peace in more earnest-sounding tones than they had used since Litvinov's heyday. They made concessions where the conceding did them no hurt: a da instead of a nyet in the U.N. Security Council, a pardon for a drunken Briton held in a Moscow jail, an agreement to talk over the exchange of wounded prisoners in Korea...
Standin. In San Francisco, a stranger stabbed Lawrance Bridges in the neck, knocked him to the sidewalk, then said: "Pardon me, I thought you were Jerry...
...another act of Christmas charity, the President granted pardons to former Democratic Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky and New Jersey's Republican ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas. May served nine months in prison for accepting bribes during his World War II stint as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Thomas, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, served nine months for taking salary kickbacks from his congressional office staff. Both men have been free since September 1950, but the presidential pardon restores their citizenship rights...
...When an Argosy legman found and questioned the man who had given the testimony, the witness changed his story: on second thought, said he, Rogers' coat was brown, whereas the one found in the car was blue. Last week, just two days before Christmas, Governor Battle signed a pardon, and Silas Rogers, after nine years behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper, the end of a long trail-a trail at once heart-warming and heart-breaking." Silas Rogers, standing in a blue suit which...
McCarthy displayed his usual tendency to imply conclusions more sweeping than his facts warranted and he once, in referring to Stevenson, said, "Alger-pardon me-I mean Adlai," a McCarthy trick that he has used several times before...