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It was an angry, spiteful Gideon who watched his army melt away. On election night, Henry Wallace listened to the returns in his office, while party workers stamped and whirled in a square dance downstairs. When the networks gave him time for a three-minute talk (which listeners expected to...
Contrary to popular opinion, the plague has not been stamped out. But Dr. Robert H. Pollitzer, 63, who has spent 27 years fighting plague in China, is quite cheerful about getting it under control, even there. Said he: "There are optimists and pessimists in this plague-fighting business. I am...
* The Army at first stamped "psychoneurosis" on the discharged man's medical record. When the "pn" label scared off prospective employers, Dr. Will had the policy changed: after February 1945, the record of a man discharged for mental cause carried such whizzbang-medicalese -stunning but relatively harmless-as "conversion...
Washington Monument. Said Biographer Freeman, in Richmond, where he is at work on Volume III: "Washington did not himself climb up on a marble pedestal, strike a pose and stay there. What we're goin' to do, please God, is to make him a human bein'. The...
In the ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to...