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...dedicated life. But Phil Murray was more than a fighter for labor. He was a man with a keen understanding of the individual's relationship to the world he lives in. Impersonally-as a union boss-Murray was tough and hard, demanding discipline and loyalty, determined and stubborn at the bargaining table. Personally he was emotional and softhearted, endowed with a twinkly-eyed kindliness and an honest humility...
Philadelphia, stubborn and alone, bucked the tide. Once the home of unreconstructed Republicanism, it became, the only important area where the Democrats made big gains in 1952. Harry Truman had carried it by a mere 7,000 in 1948; Adlai Stevenson swept it by 160,000. There were several reasons for this: the heavily Democratic Jewish and Negro vote held firm; there were few defections from the Irish Democratic vote. More important, Philadelphians had thrown out their corrupt and senile city-Republican machine in 1951, and for the first time, the controlled river wards were in the hands of Democrats...
...treacherous criminal stole up behind Lee Tracy and knocked him out with the butt of a revolver. But moments later, 54-year-old Actor Tracy leaped nimbly to his feet, disarmed the gunman, wrung a confession from a stubborn young woman, and breezily captured two gangsters for the grateful, bumbling police department. As he does regularly on Martin Kane, Private Eye (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC), Tracy last week triumphed once again over television's singularly inept underworld. What's more, he had time and breath left over to plug the products of his sponsor, United States Tobacco...
...battle of White Horse Hill, between stubborn Chinese Reds and equally stubborn South Koreans, was the bloodiest engagement of 1952. After six days of inconclusive seesawing, the gallant ROKs had chewed up several Chinese regiments, and the enemy had lost, in killed & wounded, an estimated 10,000 men. South Korean losses, though not announced, were also high. Major General Kim Chong Oh, commander of the ROK 9th Division, proudly praised his men: "Their stand has been valiant and exemplary...
...second-Communism-claims man to be an animal creature of the state, curses him for his stubborn instinct for independence, governs with a tyranny that makes its subjects wither away...