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Honorable mention went to Hallinan for an essay on "Individualism in Plato's Political Philosophy"; to Reuben P. Hersh '47 for an essay on "Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan", and to Seymour Sharnik for "Technique of Rebellion: An Essay on the Hemingway Hero...
...when the House was voting on the draft act, one Congressman shouted an unnerving question at his colleagues: "Have you heard from Reuben? What does Reuben think...
Last week, as a Senate committee tackled OPA, from farms and cities came a Reuben-roar...
...Reuben wrote to his Congressmen. Post-office crews had to wade through his mail -10,000 letters for Senator Taft alone. Letters poured in from farmers, labor, housewives, white-collar workers. Whatever the sins of OPA, the U.S. consumer had been persuaded by ex-Advertising Man Chester Bowles that only OPA stood between him and disaster...
...voice of Reuben, slightly hysterical as it was, had its effect. Before the Senate committee came two lobbyists who had helped prod the House into its brash action: Ed O'Neal, boss of the American Farm Bureau Association, and Albert Goss, Master of the National Grange. They did not go all the way with James G. Patton, boss of the Farmers' Union, who plumped for OPA, but they did think the House had gone a little too far. Ed O'Neal, who often has Congress eating out of his well-manicured hand, now thought a better "middle...