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...eloquent argument for censure came from Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush. McCarthy, said Bush, has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line." Bush defended Censure Committee Chairman Arthur Watkins from...
...level of scrappy regional history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region's character...
...unusually good one. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Ribicoff, after working his way through college and law school, served four years in Congress and compiled a voting record of independent liberalism. In 1952 he ran for the Senate but lost to Eisenhower's coattails and Senator Prescott Bush. His showing was so impressive, however, that John M. Bailey, the state Democratic boss, handpicked him to oppose Lodge in this race...
...Then fight, fight, fight, for we win tonight. . ." echoed along Prescott St. last night, as the Band, celebrating its 35th anniversary, began its second alumni reunion...
After squeezing into a basement room in Lowell Hose, and then in the basement of Paine, the band finally obtained a location big enough to have a place of honor. In 1952 the band moved to its present headquarters at 9 Prescott Street, through the courtesy of the Varsity Club above. Once dusty walls are now enlivened by appropriated road signs: old refrigerators now house uniforms. The band motto, "Illegitimacy Non Carborundum," adorns a main wall...