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...many respects, Dallas is a progressive city--so long as progress coincides with the business interests. But Dallas is best known for its conservatism. Three times Dallasites have returned Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who votes against everything including the appropriation for the Dallas Federal Building. In 1960, 60 percent of Dallas voted for Nixon, 40 for Kennedy. More significantly a large volume of anti-Catholic literature was circulated. A week before the campaign's close, a sermon by Baptist Minister W. A. Criswell appeared on the front-page of the News; it attacked Catholicism. A number of rightists (including General...
Bill, a lifelong Democrat, joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951, soon locked horns with the late Senator Joe McCarthy over a $400 contribution he had made to a defense fund for Alger Hiss. "I believed him worthy of a full defense," he says, "and the Hiss family didn't have the means." The fact that Bill was married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state...
Says the Rev. Walter Wagoner, executive director of the Fund for Theological Education: "These committees are looking for God Jr., and no one-living or dead-meets their requirements. Much of the problem results from a Horatio Alger complex, a belief that you can go out and buy a good minister the way college football coaches buy a 250-lb. tackle." Wagoner thinks that the churches could stem pulpit jumping by setting up denomination-wide salary scales (today the pay runs from $3,600 to $20,000 in the major churches) that reward ministers on the basis of length...
Lasky, co-author with Ralph de Toledano of a 1950 book on the Alger Hiss case, Seeds of Treason, is presently employed as an analyst of world and domestic affairs for the North American Newspaper Alliance. During the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign, Lasky was assigned to write a review of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s pro-Kennedy book, Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? He became so angry at Schlesinger's partisan arguments that he expanded his review into a 300-page anti-Kennedy paperback. Still incensed, Lasky has now enlarged and updated that book...
Married. Kay Sutton Topping, 48, onetime Hollywood starlet from New Jersey, ex-wife of New York Yankees Co-Owner Dan Topping, popular Washington socialite; and Frederick Moulton Alger Jr., 56, widower heir to 19th century Michigan lumber millions, Eisenhower's Ambassador to Belgium from 1953 to 1956; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich...