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Senator John J. Williams, the Delaware Republican who touched off the scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, fired another salvo last week. His target was Joseph D. Nunan Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1944 until he resigned in 1947, with a warm letter of thanks from Harry Truman, to become a Manhattan tax attorney. Many of the officials whom the tax scandals have forced out of office were his close associates, but Nunan himself had appeared only on the edges of the investigations. Senator Williams now fitted him into a gallery of old familiar faces...
Over the weekend, two batteries of big guns--the American Council on Education and the Ivy League presidents--poured salvo after salvo into the battered and rotted hulk of once-proud college athletics. When the thunder had died away, a couple of crewmen of the punished vessel, Petty Officers Caldwell and Jordan, fired one final round against the foes of spring practice, and then struck their ensign...
...some weeks a kindred argument has been raging in the pages of Britain's London Observer. "Great men," wrote Critic Ivor Brown, firing a blanket salvo at all Joycean obscurantists, "are not so silly as to make a practice of wasting their words." Philip Toynbee, the historian's son, rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar...
...Listening Post. Through a salvo of newsmen's questions, Harry Truman stood his ground. Behind his determination was a point which he did not bring out: he has been told by some of his top advisers that an embassy at the Vatican would be an important listening post in the struggle against Communism. Much of the debate in Washington last week turned on the value of the Vatican as a source of intelligence in Communist-dominated areas...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...