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...Bridges batted first with a soft paw. "Mr. Secretary," he asked across the table, "what do you consider a security risk?" With deadpan seriousness Acheson ticked off departmental regulations on treason, espionage, sus picious association and moral weaknesses that could be "preyed upon." His Deputy Under Secretary for Administra tion, John Peurifoy, added th statistics. Since early 1947, he said, 202 State Department employees (out of 17,000) had resigned in loyalty investigations; 91 of them had been found on morals counts...
Recently, Roy E. Larsen, President of TIME Inc., was quoted in this connection in a booklet we published about advertising. Said Mr. Larsen: "Our magazines are dedicated to" the distribution of informa tion - and this applies to their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift ex change of news - so would our economy, grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods." The advertisements in TIME'S International editions, like those in other U.S. publications distributed overseas, constitute...
...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...manner also new to modern diplomacy, the U.S. had seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
...went back to his law office and began the long haul up through the Illinois political machine. Making his first bid for the Senate in 1938, he had to buck Chicago's high-riding Kelly-Nash machine to win the nomination. When he came up for re-elec tion in 1944 he had so won over the old Boss that syntax-wrecking Ed Kelly nominated him for the vice-presidency...