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Whatever the reasons for State's timid concern over "security risks," they are ill-founded. The fact that the Department is simply frightened, while the McCarthys are demagogues, is no argument on behalf of State, for the executive branch can wield more power more quickly than a United States Senator. So far during the last few months that power has been used to the nation's detriment, and election or no election, we hope that those who operate State will soon regain their courage...
Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
This tactic, bullying people who admittedly felt timid and inferior, backfired quickly. Several men actually left the hall, and when the announcer asked for enrollments in the course only a scattering of hands went up. But the Carnagie-men refused to give up. They filed out the door, all the lights went out, and a movie called By Jupiter flashed on a screen in front of us. This film illustrated the technique of manipulationship with a frankness that the speakers had not shown...
Farouk and the Shah, both 32-year-olds, had failed on both counts. Both intervened to save their countries from nationalist fanatics, whose extremism threatened civil war. But Farouk's interventions, though courageous, were fitful; the Shah's too timid. Farouk, famed for yachts, gambling and women, lost his popular support to the corrupt Wafd Party; he antagonized his army by failing to clean out the extortionists in his own palace...
...still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...