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...Chairman Perry Compton took a sharper view of the idea of McCarthy campaigning in his state. "Joe is a disturbing factor, even though I believe he has done a lot of good," observed Compton. "Now he is fighting with the Army, which certainly has fought Communism . . . He is all wet in opposing the Administration program." ¶ In Connecticut, anti-McCarthy resolutions were overwhelmingly adopted by all five of the Republican town caucuses (Avon, Salisbury, Sharon, Norfolk and Canaan) which voted on them. The effort was spearheaded by Insurance Company Executive John D. Alsop* and his Avon Committee to Support President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rustlings in the Reeds | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...numbered 37 in all-newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: The Woods Walkers | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...more sure fire plan, entailing only the cost of a few cheap umbrellas. Lampoon men could hold meetings not in the Great Hall, but above it, on the distinctive Flemish tiles. There they could laugh, and at the same time learn that a writer's lot is hardship and wet feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mending Wall | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

Almost every spring, Stuffy McInnis faces a doubly-difficult problem in molding a varsity baseball team. Graduation losses are only part of the problem; lack of practice is an almost equal handicap. For Cambridge weather is seldom warm and often wet until the season has actually begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...second-floor apartment, the police found Albizu, clad in blue pajamas, his legs wrapped in wet towels (he is under the impression that the U.S. is bombarding them with death rays), cowering on the floor with two women friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Aftermath | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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