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...peaceful spring vacation and flew north from Georgia for a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. When he boarded the plane, Ike wore grey flannel slacks and a natty blue jacket; when he set down in Washington two hours later, he was clad in a sober dark blue suit, ready for business. In his brief (62 min.) stopover in the capital, Ike paid his respects in Constitution Hall to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who gave him an uproarious welcome, listened raptly to his off-the-cuff remarks, then went back to the business of passing...
...evaluating the record of a man like Joe McCarthy is difficult, especially before the dust of quieter years has settled over the controversy. With the confict between liberal and red-hunter still raging, William Buckley and L. Brent Bozell have undertaken what they would call an impartial and sober survey of the man and his beliefs. But the authors, because of their preconceptions, soon find themselves battling on the side of the Senator and reading into the record of the last four years the best of all possible meanings...
Undergraduate Van Dusen captained the Debating Team, headed the Undergraduate Council, the Bric-a-Brac and the International Polity Club, was valedictorian, Ivy Orator, Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the Student Christian Association. But for all sober purpose about him, Pit Van Dusen, when he graduated in 1919, still did not know what he wanted to do. The law, of course, beckoned, "but something made me hold back from it." He toyed with the idea of being a social worker, "although it was, and is, primarily a woman's field." His approach to the ministry...
...said to my cell mate. The drunk's eyes flickered, then he swallowed once and turned over, unconscious. An hour, then two, went by as I watched the more sober ones go out to talk to bondsmen. Finally the guard stopped in front of cell 28, "What did I tell you, boy, Freddie will spring...
...covered LPs by such favorites as Doris Day, Eddie Fisher, Eartha Kitt and Liberace. In general, sales of all the gaudily decorated albums are going strong. Record executives take satisfaction in the thought that they are just giving the public what it wants. "We try," says one, "to be sober-within reason...