Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book reviewers infallible? Not even a book reviewer would claim to be. In a special literary publication last week, the New York Times reprinted some interesting answers from 100 reviews it has run in the last 100 years. In general, the Times could stand pat on its reviews. They had not always spotted the worth of a book. But they had oftener been right (in the eyes of posterity) than wrong...
Contacted last night, Emerson said he hadn't heard from Colegrave but had heard from Senator Pat McCarran, chairman of the subcommittee. McCarran assured Emerson that his name hadn't been mentioned in the record and that a letter of protest from Emerson would also be added to the record...
After he finally decided that the Communists are not real peace lovers, and broke with the Progressive Party over the Korean war, Henry Wallace has been a man more talked about than talking. Recently, most of the talking has come from Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee investigating Communist influence on U.S. China policy. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz told the committee that Owen Lattimore and John Carter Vincent had been members of the Communist Party and went along with Wallace on his 1944 trip to China to "guide" him along the party line...
Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas Lamont, has a long record as a Soviet apologist and a sponsor for Communist fronts, including a term as chairman of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship. In its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee has made great play with Lamont's name as an Institute member...
...then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...