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...National Farmers Union, with its 750,000 members (see map), and a network of N.F.U.-run magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and radio programs. Patton's upper councils are a Democratic Farm Cabinet-in-exile: Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan is the N.F.U.'s general counsel; Wesley McCune, onetime Democratic National Committee farm specialist, is the public-relations director; Leon Keyserling, chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, is a consulting economist for the N.F.U...
...noisy ghosts) have been known to plague mankind by breaking crockery, shifting furniture, shattering windows, and indulging in various bumpings, hangings and bitings not, apparently, to be traced to any natural agency. Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17. Last week a modern poltergeist seemed to be loose in a pious Roman Catholic household at Seaford, N.Y. Skeptics, of course, said it was not a geist at all, polter or otherwise...
...soloists, Grace Hunter, Wesley Copplestone, and Thomas Beveridge '58, were uniformly excellent in quality of style and technique and in intonation. The main problem they faced was that Miss Hunter's tone was noticeably larger and stronger than either of the others'. Singing from in back of the orchestra, the men's voices sounded somewhat thin. Curiously enough, this was more apparent in the solo arias than in the ensembles, where the balance was much better. Miss Hunter performed with spirit and facility, and her singing with the chorus was particularly effective. Mr. Beveridge, the only non-professional soloist...
WAYNE F. CASKEY, JR., Winthrop; Wesley Foundation, Cambridge; University Band, Section Leader; Student Council, Tutorial Committee; Drumbeats and Song...
There were three things about 18-year-old Seaman Wesley Daggett that interested the doctors at the U.S. Navy Base Hospital at Sasebo, Japan. First, he was covered with ugly bruises on his abdomen, chest and buttocks. Secondly, he had just been discharged from the Sasebo base brig, and third, he refused to tell what had happened to him. Since the same symptoms had turned up on another case the previous week, the doctors kept after Daggett until he began to talk. What they heard sent the Navy and Marine Corps charging to the brig to investigate...