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Among the U.S. brotherhoods dedicated to the fight against Communism, nothing is quite like the John Birch Society. Except for an elite corps of leaders, its members shun personal publicity, and their names are held by the society in strictest secrecy. Its cells, of 20 to 30 members apiece, take orders from society headquarters, promote Communist-style front organizations that do not use the John Birch name. Carefully avoiding normal channels of political action, the society accepts the hardboiled, dictatorial direction of one man who sees democracy as a "perennial fraud" and estimates that...
...country does not accord prior rights to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, you can expect to find Catholics turning up in all sorts of places where, formerly, nursing real or partially imagined resentments, they never quite felt at home: on all the citizens' committees that heretofore they frequently seemed to shun-committees to clear slums, organize municipal orchestras, build new wings on public libraries, raise money for the Red Cross, and all the rest. We shall be surprised if, from now on, Catholics don't take a more active and constructive interest in the public schools-to which they choose...
...king of speedboat racers and three-time winner of the Gold Cup; of a heart attack; in San Diego. Though he whooshed the big hydroplanes through the water for 27 years, Fageol insisted that each race "scared hell out of me," finally retired in 1955 after his Slo-Mo-Shun V soared 70 ft. into the air at 165 m.p.h., looped the loop, and dumped Driver Fageol into Seattle's Lake Washington with four fractured vertebrae, four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a permanently damaged heart...
...Influence. Chairman Dodd urged his scholars to shun other modern Englishings of the Bible.* "They can't help being a bad influence," he said. "Either you're tempted, unconsciously, to copy the wording, or else in your efforts to avoid copying, you are hampered in your free choice of words...
...over but the "alls." The Associated Press and similar august bodies, with their usual looks at the press releases and little more, are busy compiling imaginary super-teams on levels from the Ivy League all the way up to the nation as a whole. The CRIMSON, never one to shun exercises in futility, hereby presents its version of the littlest of the Little All-Americans, the All-Ivy football team...