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Leonard Hall was right, but not for the reasons that Stephen Mitchell thought he was right. Rather than revealing a new trend, last week's election results retold an old story. The Republican Party has been weak for 20 years. Without the wide, bipartisan appeal of Dwight Eisenhower, the G.O.P. would have been in trouble in 1952. No party can expect the prestige or the popularity of its President to blind the voters to local shortcomings, or to make up for lack of local leadership and organization. Where it had the best of local issues and good organization work...
Dwight Eisenhower and his wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward...
Jane Froman's subsequent struggles were amply retold in last year's Hollywood extravaganza, With a Song in My Heart. Her right leg was nearly severed, and for weeks she was near death. Then began a slow, painful recovery which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash...
...days later Vishinsky got to his feet and, in a monotone, for 75 minutes accused the U.S. of "bluster, blackmail and pressure" in Korea, retold the "germ warfare" tale, and charged that U.S. "billionaires" are bent on more & more bloodshed to swell their billions. Midway through, Acheson removed his earphones for a few minutes, and some delegates began leaving...
...failure of this Administration to deal effectively with the Communist threat," said Nixon, in earnest and subdued tones, is the "greatest issue in the election." To demonstrate the failure, Nixon retold the story of the Hiss case: Whittaker Chambers' first accusation, the confrontation of the two men, Alger Hiss's admission, after twelve days of denial, that he had known Chambers after all. Nixon outlined the Administration's attempts to "cover up" the case, including an executive order by President Truman, forbidding "the FBI ... to cooperate with the Committee [on Un-American Activities] in its investigation...