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...Paton of the winners was high scorer with 17 points. Apley is still undefeated while Stoughton now has lost one. The winner of the second round will meet Apley in March...
...Administration, McCarthy charged, has not done enough to fight Communism. He wanted to know why John Paton Davies Jr., who tried "to put Communists and espionage agents in key spots in the Central Intelligence Agency," is still a "high official" of the State Department. This was a standard McCarthy twister. Davies, now counselor of the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru, once got into trouble with the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee because of testimony that he had recommended Communists...
Again disagreeing with the President, Senator McCarthy reiterated his belief that the influence of Communism in goverment will be the key issue in the 1954 and 1956 political campaigns. But he carefully avoided any reference to John Paton Davis, State Department aid who figured prominently in this week's debate...
...book, Paton's manner has far more tedious, the treatment of the subject matter far less convincing. Pieter van Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So, after a long moral struggle that is talked about a great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality...
...very well for Author Paton to indulge in such threnodies for his hero, rather in the manner of the chorus in a Greek tragedy. But if he had called off his chorus now and then and given his characters some elbow room, he might at least have made Too Late the Phalarope a little clearer than its title. The phalarope (a small bird like a sandpiper) serves Author Paton as a symbol for innocence. Hard to say just...