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Secrecy & Mystery. But the effect of the Chambers-Hiss case was not confined to the sentencing of one man and the vindication of another. During the hearings, President Harry Truman charged that the whole affair was a Republican-plotted "red herring"-and his quip became a political boomerang, evidence that the Democrats were "soft on Communism." Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, insisted stubbornly that he would not "turn his back on Alger Hiss"-and came under political attack that seriously curbed his effectiveness. A young California Congressman named Richard Nixon became a national figure by prying information...
Before the Overseers met, a Harvard junior attracted a gathering in front of Widener to bemoan the abandonment of Latin. The group marched on the President's house in good spirits and heard Pusey quip. "What's pet in Latin/ Or chic in Greek,/I always distinguish/More clearly in English." The 2000 students paraded around the Square for a while, then went home...
...import of the ideas of all three panelists was best summed up by Alfred's opening quip, which he had attributed to Thomas Mann but later admitted was his own, "If you give the public quality, they will buy quality...
...this can be done with safety to the children and the schools. Certainly this will be done not later than the public schools are opened to all pupils." This was dismissed with a smirk: "Then came the hedge." The sum of TIME'S account was in the snickering quip: "Not later, but not now." My question is: Does TIME report the facts honestly or twist them to secure a cute caption? Perhaps a more profound question could be asked: Did TIME read the pastoral letters, and if so, why were they not reported fairly...
...lier-than-thou reviewer's damning with faint puns Peter De Vries' Through the. Fields of Clover: for such a pun-stirrer to grind up De Vries' meaty message with half-witticisms of his own seems in wurst possible taste-particularly in such a notorious quip-joint as TIME...