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Twain could be cruelly funny; in one tale a man, caught in a textile machine, gets woven into 39 yards of carpeting. Together with wry homilies ("Temperate temperance is best") Holbrook includes a ghost story, a fragment from Huckleberry Finn, and passages of the purest poetry, such as a description...
The Atlantic Monthly reports on Johnson: "His assistants have been almost completely shut off from the press, even for background purposes," because the President feels that this will prevent unwarranted leaks. There is validity in his contention that press leaks, which are often inaccurate as well as ill-timed, may...
One national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary. During the war, while Ana Pauker hid safely in Moscow, Dej and his associates organized anti-fascist resistance or else languished in the cells of various Rumanian prisons. By 1952...
Timed to coincide with Madison Square Garden's annual Westminster Kennel Club Show, the high-fashion dog show focused on celebrities' pups. Porgie Cassini, Columnist Igor's beagle, showed the crowd a few pointers in a $10 tight-fitting white knit turtleneck. Rufus Cass, a Cavalier King...
A Push from Monopsony. By then, Lockheed had decided to retreat, at least temporarily, from the commercial-plane market and stake its future on defense and space work. The move was well timed. The company was already deeply involved with the Navy's Polaris missile, which has accounted for...