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...Eisenhower is probably the most insistent member of the Republican Party in urging smooth integration. But he has allowed his excellent Civil Rights Bill to be pigeon-holed in the Senate. He insists on remaining behind the scenes, perhaps from fear of tarnishing the national father image. Cautious backing of federal legislation is just fine, but the President's statement during the last campaign to the effect that it didn't matter whether he backed the Supreme Court decision or not because it was the decision of the highest court in the nation is carrying the noncommital approach...
...heart of this luminous voracity lies Trilling's abhorrence for "art for the sake of art." Art is a criticism of life, and reading is a criticism of life. And when you read this commentary you do not pigeon-hole, or classify as significant. You must answer any imperative demand to live in certain ways. When he talks about Dickens he does not say "what an interesting man," nor "what a monumental figure," nor "what a perceptive characterizer," but rather he demands do as Dickens did. A book is ultimately a call to reaction and then action...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Clay Pigeon, with Farley Granger as a test pilot in love with Phyllis Kirk (color...
...York Giants never seemed to know what to do about Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Their pitchers threw baseballs at his greying head and their bench jockeys winged epithets at his quick temper. Still his big bat, or darting base running, broke up ball games. The very sight of his pigeon-toed trot to position moved the fans on Coogan's Bluff to borrow from Yankee territory that ultimate complaint, the long Bronx cheer. Even when taking their lumps from every other team in the league, the Giants usually managed to play good ball against the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they never...
...Pigeons have been carrying messages ever since a water-locked Noah sent a dove out to bring tidings of land. Caesar, campaigning in Gaul, used pigeons to carry news of his exploits to Rome. In World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost Battalion, braved gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions...