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...were whooping it up in the Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes...
...Necessary Restraint. Occasionally, the rudderless hearings drifted near to the heart of the matter. Time & again, McCarthy tried to get Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens to answer yes or no to the question: Did he try to get McCarthy to call off the hearings an security risks at Fort Monmouth, N.J.? Time & again, Stevens made a sound distinction: "I wanted to have the type of hearing that you were conducting suspended . . . If you had held the type of hearing which would have given the American people ... a more accurate evaluation of what the situation was at Fort Monmouth...
...Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...
...many called to give rudderless France a new government, the sixth chose to try. Striding crisply into the National Assembly, bespectacled Edgar Faure (pronounced fore) asked to be accepted as Premier. The Deputies, impressed by his agile answers to sharp questions, unexpectedly approved him by a hefty majority (401-to-101). Then he sat down to try to piece together a cabinet, the twelfth to govern France since...
...Barber Shop" [see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER] and "The Long Road"-which have a universal appeal to all men. They serve to arouse sympathy for one's fellow man, and also emphasize . . . that the fundamental virtues of charity and love of neighbor ... in this spiritually rudderless era still are a more powerful influence for world peace and unity than the strictly negative Hoover Plan or a revitalized Fortress Europe, or an all-out atom bomb attack on the hydra-headed monster of Communism...