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Renegades & Traitors. What the New Mexican calls "furious disputation and fuming contumely" have marked its first 100 years, and the editorial page has long bristled with such words as "renegade," "traitor," "scum." But it was not until rich, scholarly and ambitious Bronson Cutting bought the New Mexican in 1912 that it swept toward the high tide of its influence. In 23 years as Publisher Cutting's personal mouthpiece, the paper helped him win political control of the state and eight years in the U.S. Senate...
Renegades & Traitors. What the New Mexican calls "furious disputation and fuming contumely" have marked its first 100 years, and the editorial page has long bristled with such words as "renegade," "traitor," "scum." But it was not until rich, scholarly and ambitious Bronson Cutting bought the New Mexican in 1912 that it swept toward the high tide of its influence. In 23 years as Publisher Cutting's personal mouthpiece, the paper helped him win political control of the state and eight years in the U.S. Senate...
...Green Scum & Twisted Steel. Since the crater was first shown to outsiders (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), its appearance has become less dramatic. There are no longer any lead-shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen...
Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...
Instead of friendship, Communist organizations denounced the A.P.'s Spencer Moosa and the U.P.'s Michael Keon for "base insults" to the people of Peiping. Cried one Red committee: "We cannot tolerate frenzied barkings from the scum of the journalistic world...