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...practicing Roman Catholic, I must say that I have nothing but contempt for those ungracious, unsympathetic remarks made by a Vatican spokesman against Archbishop Rummel's views on integrating whites and Negroes (Aug. 19). What New Orleans...
...Your Aug. 26 article "Drys v. Wets" quoted four National Airlines stewardesses who brought in a petition to a congressional committee asking that drinking be continued on our airlines. Testimony was also submitted to the Senate aviation subcommittee by the airline pilots who strongly supported the bill to ban the serving of liquor on commercial flights. There are usually two sides to a question...
...your Aug. 26 story on Confidential and Hollywood: please be more careful in future about associations. It isn't that those of us in publicity object so much to your flat statement, "Tips for stories were handed the Meades . . . by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and pressagents . . ." It's just that our wives are asking, if we are in this classification, how come our take home pay is so little...
...Yankee Racist John Kasper, Clinton roughnecks tried to chase Negro pupils away from high school, beat up a Baptist minister, forced Governor Frank Clement to call out the National Guard, and brought on a court case in which Kasper and six others were found guilty of criminal contempt (TIME. Aug. 5). Last week Clinton High School opened for the 1957-58 school year with eight Negroes present. It was a calm day: the troublemaking minority squelched, integration had been established in Clinton. Tennessee's next test: Nashville, this week...
When he showed his baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel...