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...Your smear of Joseph P. Kamp was particularly vicious and uncalled for. A more patriotic American could never be found...
...about steel (see above), he was the model of patient reasonableness. But when he was asked if he would serve if he were drafted for another term, the Truman jaw jutted out, the presidential voice snapped: he would not accept the nomination, and that ends that. What about the smear rumor that General Eisenhower is in poor health? Eisenhower is in perfect health, said the President with earnest conviction, and as fine a man as ever walked. Then he relaxed and chuckled that the general is just beginning to find out what happens to a candidate...
...their messages are incoherent, self-canceling and wildly contradictory. But their common purpose is the big smear. With a calculated appeal to the varying prejudices of their intended readers, they portray Ike in bewildering succession as a Roman Catholic, a sick man, a Jew, a warmonger, a white supremacist, a coddler of Negro troops, a tool of Russia, a lackey of Wall Street, a front for New Dealers and a pal of Joe Stalin...
Another kind of smear comes in a 16-page pamphlet, Headlines and What's Behind Them ("for students, writers and speakers"). A streamer on the front page blares the message: REDS, NEW DEALERS USE IKE IN PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews...
Columnist Selby, who specializes in digging up stories that others pass by (TIME, July 3, 1950), was far from convinced. The broken pane had a smear of paint on one side and heavy putty on the other, and police assumed the thick putty was on the outside. Selby checked the lobby windows, discovered each had the telltale paint smear on the outside and heavy putty on the inside. Last week he wrote that the bullet might have come from outside the hotel. After new tests Dilworth announced meekly: the tests "appear to absolve" Virginia Carroll. Said Bulletin Managing Editor Walter...