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...lack of firm leadership" during Eisenhower's, Sparkman accused the Administration of concocting a "Giveaway Program" (e.g., offshore oil) for "the few" and a "TakeAway Program" (i.e., hard money) for "the many." ¶ At a Democratic Party fund-raising luncheon in the capital, Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson cried: "They began with the giveaways . . . They backed away from any number of their campaign programs . . . They want to dream away the Russian menace . . . The giveaway, back-away, dream-away of 1953 will become the vote-away of 1954." ¶ Ex-Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan told 200 newspaper editors...
...Haven, Jay Janis, General Manager of the Ivy Network, would not officially confirm the information either, but "would not deny" that negotiations were underway with NBC for a possible affiliation. "If you want to scoop all the national and college newspapers on a big story, send someone to Dartmouth on the 25th," he added...
...Story of Three Loves (MGM) is rich, triple-scoop helping of boy-meets-girl aimed at the matinee carriage trade. Dressed up with Technicolor, an assortment of stars and a variety of Continental backgrounds, the picture presents more than two hours of romance in three loosely linked episodes...
Toumanoff was asked if he thought it a good idea to deny the promotion board knowledge that an employee was a sexual deviate. He replied: "Yes sir, I think it is a good idea." Then Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, freshman from Washington, put a hypothetical case before the witness: Suppose that the files showed a candidate for promotion was a convicted homosexual? Would you then withhold the evidence? Toumanoff was silent...
What was left of the CRIMSON board rallied around to wage a torrid scoop- skirmish with the rebel sensationalists. The "100 Days War" finally came to an end by June when the Journal-ists had had it financially and academically; the victorious Crime emerged a far more modern and readable paper than it had been before the schism...