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...girl to do a man's job. He told Barbara Ward to spend a couple of months in the U.S., find out what was on the U.S. mind, and then write a series about it. Brisk and brilliant Barbara Ward, who at 32 is a kind of younger, softer-voiced, English edition of Dorothy Thompson, went at it in a big way. Her research project turned into a coast-to-coast lecture tour, with radio dates and extra speeches thrown in. She gave as many interviews as she got, and never ran out of breath or big, round statements...
...cardinal issue of U.S. policy toward Russia. A Gallup poll reported last week that 19% of the people approved a continuation of Jimmy Byrnes's firmness-with-patience approach to Russia, but that an additional 51% hoped that Secretary Marshall would be even firmer. Only 5% wanted softer tactics...
...Crimson's one-mile relay members seem to have drawn a softer assignment than their two - mile brothers. They have only Holy Cross and Brown to worry about, while the two-mile quartet will have to take on virtually the entire Greater Boston field, M.I.T., Boston College, Tufts, Northeastern, and Holy Cross...
...known that if Prime Minister Attlee forced the issue they would not vote to censure the Foreign Secretary. Socialist Attlee, as much a part of the British tradition as any Clarenceux King-of-Arms, promptly forced the issue-on an amendment sponsored by 58 Laborites who wanted a "softer" British foreign policy. When Attlee made the vote a question of confidence in the Government, none of the 58 voted for the amendment and it was beaten...
...Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...