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...first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers and statesmen rather than barefoot mountain boys...
...proudly salute the gallant American fight in Korea . . . What I deplore in [the] cases of Berlin and Korea is this: the incompetence of political leaders which made military action necessary. Democracies cannot afford the luxury of assigning armies of soldiers to go around 'picking up' after their statesmen...
...philosopher, but he did become a scholar-with a spectacular sort of wanderlust that eventually made him famous. A kindly, ruddy-faced man who wandered from medicine to the classics to economics, he taught at eight universities, founded a school, finally became one of U.S. education's elder statesmen. By last week, as he published his autobiography at 77 (Pioneer's Progress; Viking Press, $5), he could justly make the claim: "I possessed an educational green thumb. Intellectual plants grew under my hand...
...ranking rivals on U.S. foreign policy, Democrat Averell Harriman and Republican John Foster Dulles, sat down before the cameras in a CBS Manhattan television studio one night last week for half an hour of what television likes to call political debate. They began in the gentlemanly manner of statesmen, wound up at sign-off time panting like lady wrestlers. In between, they managed to touch on more pertinent-and fascinatingly impertinent-points of U.S. foreign policy than the nation has seen or heard in any single half an hour of the 1952 campaign to date. Excerpts...
...where he did his composing, there were speeches by Senators Styles Bridges and Charles Tobey. Thornton Wilder read passages from Our Town, which he wrote in the colony. Mrs. MacDowell listened to selections of her husband's music and accepted a birthday book of greetings from several hundred statesmen and former colonists. She was, said Mrs. MacDowell in her thank-you speech, "a very ordinary woman who was given a very great opportunity which I se zed.'' And from Colony President Carl Carmer there was further good news. The proceeds of a fund-raising campaign now under...