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Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Ralph Bellamy in Ridin' Shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn. Mrs. McDanal later reported that they lectured her for using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: A Call from the Neighbors | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Suddenly a shotgun muzzle was thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Keep Fighting. Thus last week a cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shot in the Dark | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...especially on teaching, have been both crude and subtle. The crude approach, as exemplified by such groups as the Barnes Bill partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology and of accurately labeling the card-holding teacher most of whom would certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academic Freedom | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

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