Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
Died. Russell Doubleday, 77, author (A Gunner Aboard the Yankee, 1898; Tree Neighbors, 1940), editor (World's Work) and publisher (vice president, Doubleday & Co.); after brief illness; in Glen Cove...
...author's statement that "for every known Agent of the FBI, there are several undercover agents and general informants in the area" is entirely fallacious, as is his following statement that "These are the men they suspect of watching their homes and in one case of opening their mail." These statements are entirely inaccurate...
...Provost Furniss' exact statement, as he sat in his office, was: "These gum-shoes are in and out of here every day." At the time, the conversation was concerned strictly with the FBI. The "every day" was placed in quotes purposely to indicate that it was not the author's report of a fact, but his repetition of what had been told him, in this case by the man most qualified to make such a statement...
Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...