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...last summer, TIME'S Seattle bureau chief. Dean Brelis, was aboard a small launch in the middle of Lake Washington, watching a trial run of the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, 1952 Gold Cup winner. Suddenly a sailboat slid effortlessly up to the launch. As the sailboat started to turn, a young lady standing in the bow tossed a stone into the launch. Brelis picked up the stone, found a piece of paper wrapped around it with thick rubber bands. On the paper was a message for him to get in touch with Western Union's Operator 25 immediately...
Hammer in hand, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement stepped up to a microphone in Nashville's War Memorial Square one morning last week, and loosed a brisk spiel about the merits of a 1951 Buick sedan. No man to shun the public eye or ear, youthful (32) Governor Clement-who is considered likely to run against Estes Kefauver for the senatorial nomination next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well...
These are the standards of competence the report suggests: Outside his university a professor must avoid criminal or conspiratorial actions and keep from jeopardizing his citizenship; inside, he must shun in his teaching the three typical methods of the police state--advocacy of revolution, deliberate lying to convince students, and blind adherence to a party line laid down by someone else...
Underscoring this ribald warmth is Eddie's serious interest in Lowell, and in his own education. Kelleher has called him a "mine of information on the Irish in America and a self educated man whose intelligence has made him shun the worst Irish day-of-the-morning elements." He sprinkles his speech with quotes of everything from Hamlet to Abou Ben Adhem, while his command of five languages (his German is "not very good--just a reading knowledge") have made him a "discovery" for each new class of Lowell men. Snatching time from his work and his reading, Eddie...
...Housemasters realize that wholesale propaganda campaigns will just increase the difficulty of keeping the Houses representative. Even though each Master takes pride in the competitive accomplishments of his House, they shun recruiting. Neither they nor their tutors have been connected with the recent unpleasantness...