Word: saneness
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Until last week Senator Robert Taft had a great reputation for sane consideration of the facts involved in political issues. Senator Taft's appeal to logic-sensitive voters must now be tempered with his statement in opposition to David Lilienthal's nomination to head the Atomic Energy Committee. Though the Senator loves facts, he manages to spice this devotion with one choice venture into fancy; though he employs logic to reach his conclusions, no one can deny his knowledge of other less strenuous processes...
...editors of the Times give him a free hand, don't even read his safe-&-sane, stuffy, Times-like pieces before they appear in print. One Fine series (on sloppy teaching of U.S. history) won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize. Last week Dr. Fine (he has a Ph.D. in education) began a new twelve-part series on what was wrong with U.S. education. It was based on a six-month swing he had made around the nation's public schools, and on the answers to 5,000 of his questionnaires...
Married. Ely Culbertson, 55, autobiographer (The Strange Lives of One Man), high priest of contract bridge turned World Federalist; and Dorothy Renata Baehne (rhymes with sane), 21; he for the second time, she for the first; in Chandler, Ariz...
...have a seesaw tug of war over a weird New Orleans type of riff intricately decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's piano solo on the second chorus of "Honey Suckle Rose" is an imaginative recollection of Fats Waller and "Wild Bill" ploughs a safe and sane path through the final chorus of "Sentimental Baby." It almost sounds as if, God forbid, he was reading it off a score, there are so few sour notes...
...Wells's will left the bulk of his estate-some $240,000 before taxes-to his two sons, a daughter-in-law, and Baroness Budberg, whom the will described as "my very dear friend." Father Wells took time out to express his "loving recognition of the good and sane behavior of all my offspring toward...