People: Judgments

Earl Browder, onetime boss of the U.S. Communist Party, was arrested for spitting in a Bronx subway, pleaded guilty, paid a $2 fine.

Gael Sullivan, dashing 42-year-old executive director of the Democratic National Committee, dashed around a curve in Rhode Island, tangled fenders with an oncoming car. Booked for drunken driving, he pleaded not guilty.

From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States...

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