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...didn't like the sloppy way a Hearst syndicate sent its features to the Constitution, and wrote long letters to the syndicate, saying so. The story (Gorta-towsky calls it mostly legend) is that Hearst thereupon wired him: "If you know so damned much about running a syndicate, why don't you come up and help run ours?" He has been working for Hearst since...
...state. . . ." Leftist Sydney Elliott decided that it was time to go. Said he last week: "It was easy to part with the Beaver on political grounds, but it took a lot of courage to make a personal break . . . the old man is a fellow of great charm." He thereupon moved his leftist luggage over to the tabloid, sexy, socialist-supporting Daily Mirror...
Dropped in loose clusters of 14, or "amiable" clusters of 38, the finless oil-bombs are exploded by a time fuse four or five seconds after landing. Thereupon M-69s become miniature flamethrowers* that hurl cheesecloth socks full of furiously flaming goo for 100 yards. Anything these socks hit is enveloped by clinging, fiery pancakes, each spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child...
...Barkley's coat. The Senator rushed to the cloakroom, returned in three minutes with a penciled slip of paper in his hand. Triumphantly he read it to the Senate. It was a paraphrased* message from the President, two days late, promising that he would sign the George Bill. Thereupon, Alben Barkley moved that the vote on confirming Henry Wallace as just plain Secretary of Commerce be delayed until March 1. Few doubted that at that time Henry Wallace will win the Senate's approval. Reasons: 1) the job has been stripped down; 2) most Senators grant a President...
...runs 15 of them. All of them fit comfortably into the Post's political frame: New Dealism. Even so, the Post last week found the opinions of two of its top columnists, Dorothy Thompson and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, more than it could bear. The offending pair were thereupon taken to task by Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey. In a hotly phrased, 1,000-word, two-column blast, Editor Thackrey wrote with the air of a man asking himself: is this what I have been publishing...