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...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...
...over this spirit of fear and hatred. It is certainly an achievement beyond the resources of a simple idealism. For naive idealists . . . could not bear to be reminded that there is a hidden kinship between the vices of even the most vicious and the virtues of even the most upright...
...Upright Judge. Unnumbered millions of people got to know Estes Kefauver as he presided over the hearings of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee a year ago. From Manhattan as far west as the coaxial cable ran, the U.S. adjusted itself to Kefauver's schedule. Dishes stood in sinks, babies went unfed, business sagged and department stores emptied while the hearings were...
Kefauver could not have made his debut to better advantage. His role was that of an upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled...
...tragedies of our time is that our President, Harry S. Truman, an essentially honorable and upright man . . . has allowed himself to be so hampered by the machinations of false friends that, like Gulliver, he is rendered helpless by a network thrown about him by "little people," confessed self-seekers and greedy opportunists. Tennyson describes his situation thus: "His honor rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Shakespeare, the master diagnostician of mental and emotional deviations, provides the remedy: ". . . To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst...