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...soldiers at a clip through the Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge University gave him an LL.D., its orator called him "navigatorum principem, tempestatum hostiumque irrisorem" -prince of navigators and scorner of danger, from both storm...
...American soldiers did not challenge an order at Bataan or in France; they did not disobey orders at Pearl Harbor or Valley Forge . . ." Airman Wheeler was convicted. His civilian defense attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Murray Sprung, sprang to his feet, pleaded for leniency: "Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat/ Or hurl the cynic's ban?/ Let me live in my house by the side of the road/ And be a friend to man." Appealed Attorney Sprung, his voice hoarse with emotion: "Gentlemen, be a friend to Airman Wheeler...
Wendell Willkie's son has no intention of repeating his father's mistakes. His father, an unorthodox campaigner and a scorner of political drudgery, began his Republican career at the top-and got elected to nothing. Son Philip, 28 and ambitious, is starting at the bottom...
Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another...
Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...