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Enemy's Weapon. In Delaware, Ohio, Harry McClellan pleaded guilty to a charge of attacking his wife, Almyra, with a rolling pin...
Party bigwigs from Paris, appearing as witnesses, quickly shifted from the case at hand to standard denunciations of the Marshall Plan and the atom bomb (U.S. brand). Prim in a navy pin-striped suit, Raymonde smiled, blew kisses to her husband of seven months, once fell asleep when the trial session dragged on past midnight. She admitted her crime "proudly," said she did it because "I hate...
...mood to talk, and he did his best to describe a man to whom he had turned over documents and verbal messages in the U.S. The go-between, he said, was a short, stocky, soft-spoken fellow with Slavic features, an oval face and a penchant for pin-striped suits. His conversation reflected scientific training. But what was his name? Where did he live? What was his background? Fuchs had never found...
...Roosevelt in Retrospect, Gunther has brought these talents to bear on the complex personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In spite of his avowed aim of getting at his subject's "root qualities and basic sources of power," Gunther has conspicuously failed to "pin something of his great substance against the wall of time." Getting inside a man is something quite different from getting into a continent or a country; it takes more than visas. What Gunther has achieved is a lively journalistic profile pieced together with materials largely lifted from the mushrooming literature on F.D.R. and loosely held together...
When discrimination is as unintentional and as hard to pin down as it is here, and when it is so largely dependent upon economic and sociological actors, it is not easy to propose a perfect remedy. But a point in which the University has been generally negligent, and which applies particularly to Negroes, is the matter of publicity for the College. If people in the South and West hear more about Harvard, if it is made clear to them that the College's admission and scholarship policies are non-discriminatory, if representatives emphasize this to outlying high schools--including Negro...