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...issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly for the whim of it-collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received praise from his boss and the Senate committee. I wonder if it was with premeditation or happenstance that TIME placed these sad tales side by side to illustrate this inequality of our scales of justice...
...days of old, the King's whim formed the country's reward: he gave to favored friends a forest, a few hundred serfs and an earldom. The very titles of prized orders (e.g., Knights of the Garter) reflected the cozy household nature of it all. Last week Queen Elizabeth published her Birthday Honors List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts...
...addition, "tattling" has bad moral connotations for Americans who have learned from earliest school days how "wicked" Benedict Arnold and his ilk are. The national ethic, which has no place for informing, they maintain, should take precedence over the whim of a committee...
...false) are the currency. Are tunics in? Will Dacron last? Is the two-piece bathing suit coming back? Gulping pastrami sandwiches and dodging careering handcarts packed with their rivals' dresses, Seventh Avenue's denizens must decide. Their decisions are based on nothing more than the gossamer whim of the female mind, and if they decide wrong, they go broke...
Cold Ears. No one on Seventh Avenue is more aware of the tremendous risks in fashion than Claire McCardell, who with her company has had more ups and downs than the hemline. But no one seems less concerned about the rumors, or less worried about where whim will carry fashion next. Says she: "I've always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that other people need them, too." At 50, Designer McCardell is still her own best model. She is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, has a trim figure (130 lbs.), honey-blonde hair and sparkling...