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After Mary Heaton Vorse had lived in Provincetown some 35 years, a native said to her one day: "We've gotten to think of you as one of us." Author Vorse was tickled silly. A hectic career as a pinko labor reporter and foreign correspondent has left her with little that is so permanently satisfying as her adopted home port, Provincetown-the fishing-&-tourist village at the end of Cape...
...pinko New Republic ("Don't think that Mr. Steinbeck's Nazis are the people who actually invaded Norway. If they were, the free nations wouldn't need planes, tanks and gasoline rationing to defeat them. The job could be done effectively with dynamite and bonbons...
...TIME [May 25] you depart from your usual independence of judgment when you side with the mob in general, New Dealers in particular, and "pinko" New Republic in very particular in condemning and ridiculing members of Congress. Out here where we like to think things through instead of becoming hysterical, the members of Congress look as good to us or better than the members of the packed Supreme Court or the screwballs making up the "New Deal" administration-e.g., Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau Jr. and the like...
California Democrats are out this year to liquidate Republican Congressman Leland M. Ford*-who is what pinko weeklies call "an arch labor-baiter." To do the trick they picked a well-known name that covered an unknown political quantity. Their candidate: Will Rogers Jr., 29, son of the late, famed humorist...
...pompous ball of fire, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Not a delegate to the convention, 33-year-old Publisher Powell was more talked about than acclaimed. Some said he was a hot shot who would fizzle out in a year. One Negro executive called him "a new and slightly pinko kid who hasn't got his feet wet yet." He was called "a poor imitation of Ralph Ingersoll." His journalism was described as the kind that "just brings down criticism on the heads of the whole Negro press...