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...last month unlimbered against enemy propaganda the kind of weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange...
...first four shooting matches left the air full of fragmented lies and cheers from the audience. The New York Times's sensitive Radiocritic John Hutchens called it the best of the summer shows. More than 2,000 listeners wrote in about it. Sample: "Rex Stout, you're the nuts...
...ALPmen began to scrabble about for a candidate. Desperately they proposed Rex Tugwell, Adolf Berle, Wendell Willkie, Fiorello LaGuardia and Dorothy Thompson. None, of course, was "available." A.L.P. finally settled on moonfaced, bespectacled Dean Alfange, 44, lawyer, author and onetime unsuccessful Tammany candidate for Congress. Although his was the only name presented to the convention, politically unknown Dean Alfange said what pleased him most was that the convention was "free and un-bossed." He identified himself as a New Deal Democrat...
...days before he left for San Juan, Tom Hennings married Mrs. Josephine Halpin, a St. Louis radio announcer who specialized in "the woman's angle." Tom and Josephine Hennings were more than merely decorative. For dreamy, reform-minded Rex Tugwell, extrovert Tom Hennings made an ideal trouble shooter. Sleek Mrs. Hennings, used to a busy life, poured her bubbling energy into civilian defense, which was headed by determined, energetic Mrs. Tugwell. The two ladies did not get along well...
...Earnest Rex Tugwell is not noted for his tact. Gradually the more formal Puerto Ricans began to grumble at his blunt, abrupt handling of affairs. Sugar interests griped at his close association with swart, spaniel-eyed Luis Muñoz Marín, liberal President of the Senate (who once warned his followers forcefully: "Distrust all politicians-even me''). Officials' wives complained that Mrs. Tugwell was aloof...