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...more than 50 during the campaign) and answered in great detail questions on everything from the Eisenhower Administration's policy in the Suez crisis to statements he had made on the Fifth Amendment a decade ago. He also showed some deft footwork. In Toledo, one correspondent tried to trap him into an indorsement of George Bender's opponent, Ohio's Democratic Governor Frank Lausche, who has been favorably inclined toward the Eisenhower Administration. Was Lausche Nixon's kind of Democrat? Nixon made clear that he was all out for George Bender, but he added: "I have...
...youthful to look at; she had her moments of poetry, of awakening ardor and awakened passion. But she mixed talent with tediousness, was too mannered, too slow-paced, seemed half a Juliet really in love with Romeo, half an actress merely in love with her role. In that tender trap of a part-Romeo-Actor Neville was sometimes graceful, but, as with his Richard, never simple enough, and, like too many other Romeos, never real. For all its verbal magic the play itself is far from a dramatic blessing. It is not among Shakespeare's true tragedies, but only...
Williams College Professor James Burns has a more elusive fellow to trap in Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox, and he knows it. Burns wears his objectivity on both sleeves. Though his F.D.R. is not noticeably different from the composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment...
...Pinch. In Charleston, W. Va., hiding under a hotel bed to trap two men and a woman on liquor and prostitution charges, Vice Detective George Robertson got wedged under the springs, held out his badge to make the arrest, got unwedged when the bed was lifted...
Funeral for Face. There is no real evidence that Tito is going to fall into the trap set for him by his old comrades. In fact, the Soviet Communists, by making a number of concessions to him, made his visit to Yalta seem highly successful. In Hungary, the Communists ordered the disinterment and state reburial of former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk and three other top-ranking Communists who were all hanged seven years ago as Titoists. The Hungarian state Cabinet and some 200,000 Hungarians marching behind the black coffins were, in effect, a tribute to Tito...