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Hodges and Gilmour, together with Stafford Salem and Neville Markham, are the only returning members of last season's matchless, veteranless, scoreless, undefeated, side...
Then Neuberger quoted his old friend, Publisher Palmer Hoyt (Denver Post), on the fact that the Neubergers had comprised 15% of the tiny Democratic delegation in Republican Salem. "I've heard of politicians caucusing in a telephone booth," Hoyt had said, "but it's the first time I've known you could caucus in bed." Having run through his quips, the new Senator proceeded to batter those politicians who had resorted to "character assassination" in 1954-to the acute annoyance of Republicans in his audience. Washington's fleeting mood of bipartisan sweetness and light was jarred...
...people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers lived in a motel and built up a commendable liberal record (and a basic research for magazine articles) as an aggressive, incorruptible legislative team...
...Paris, Les Sorcières de Salem, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, won critical acclaim and a typically French confusion of interpretations. A few saw the story of the Salem witch hunts as an indictment of Joe McCarthy; others interpreted it as a damnation of Communist persecutions. Commented Le Monde's critic: "This ancient history of sorcery, mobile as a weather vane, can as well be directed at the East as at the West...
...Salem turned to the court, spread his hands and cried: "See, people! There is the Brotherhood. They're all liars...