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...star did not entirely wane. He became a power among the back-room Reds who steered Henry Wallace through the presidential campaign. But when the Korean war began, he, like Wallace, began slipping away from his Commie cronies. California's Congressman Richard Nixon, scenting opportunity, decided to call him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and ask him a few questions. (Once before, when Whittaker Chambers named Pressman as a member of the same elite apparatus as Alger Hiss, Pressman had taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer Congressmen's questions...
...broad daylight, the fleet steamed through the Shimonoseki Straits and cut into the Japan Sea, quite obviously bound for Korea. By sunset of the first day out, the festivities were on the wane. Rear Admiral James H. Doyle ordered blackout conditions set on all ships. Below decks...
...exhibit as a whole showed once again that realism in the U.S., as in Europe, has been on the wane for the last 50 years. Before the turn of the century, Albert Pinkham Ryder was laughed at for his dreamy, semi-abstract seascapes. Successors such as John Marin made abstraction an important part of U.S. art history, and today it is the language of hundreds of young American painters...
Dartmouth's series of crippling backfield injuries is now definitely on the wane with the return of Hal Fitkin at right half and Herb Carey at fullback In fact, the only spot where the Big Green is still weakened by injuries is at left half where Bill Dey, a converted fullback, is doing a creditable...
Many stars are variable. The "novae" flash into sudden brilliance and then fade back to dimness. Others wax & wane regularly every few days. In a letter to Britain's Nature magazine, D. Stanley-Jones suggests that both types of uneasy stars may be natural versions of the man-made atomic bomb...