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Over the long months since August 1948, the case of Alger Hiss had been an agonizing public ordeal that left its mark on those who lived it. For a weary, tarnished man who had trodden the harsh, thankless road to Communism and back, the verdict was at least a partial expiation. Milking the cows on his Maryland farm, Whittaker Chambers said: "My work is finished...
These will include in their numbers Captain Levi Jackson, a pepper guy practically without equal in the Ivy League, who has made up for the partial loss of his phenomenal speed by emerging as a fine pass receiver; Nadherny, who always goes through a Harvard line as if those red shirts were so many muletas; and Jim Fuchs and Charlie Keller, two backs who also have been "sick" recently...
...Rendezvous. Already, for the conservative Morning Post, she had "some of that intoxicating quality always associated with the great dancers." After her first Swan Lake, the Daily Telegraph granted her "that rare title 'ballerina.' " Her first Giselle, at 17, was, said the News-Chronicle, "the partial fulfillment of a promise she makes every time she dances." By the time she was 20 she had completed the great classical trilogy with Sleeping Beauty. She was a superbly finished dancer; but it took an accident to make her a great artist as well...
...world crisis developed Taylor shifted from National Affairs and the domestic scene to Army & Navy and World Battlefronts. From 1942 to 1946 even a partial list of his cover subjects, through whom TIME told part of the story of World War II, reads like a rollcall of the war years: Leahy, Alexander, Gort, Tedder, Doolittle, Montgomery, Spaatz, Spruance, Eisenhower, Wainwright, Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf...
...Student Council appropriated $305 last night as partial support for the College National Students Association delegation until October...