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WITHOUT LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, I WOULD BEG TO CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OF VIRGINIA CITY IN THE REVIEW [AUG. 30] OF MY "COMSTOCK COMMOTION" FROM 2,450 TO THE ACTUAL 4OO. YOUR FIGURE SOUNDS BETTER, BUT IT ALSO GIVES US LESS FAVORABLE SALOON-TO-POPULATION RATIO. OUR 17 SALOONS FOR 4OO INHABITANTS, WE BELIEVE, IS THE GREATEST DENSITY IN THE U.S., AND WE DON'T WANT IT MISREPRESENTED...
...YOUR AUG. 23 REPORT ON THE CONGRESS AND YOUR ALLUSION TO MINNESOTA'S SENATOR ED THYE AS A REPUBLICAN IRRESPONSIBLE: WE CONSIDER THYE A MOST RESPONSIBLE MEMBER OF THE U.S. SENATE, AND BEG TO INFORM YOU THAT WHILE HE MAY NOT AGREE WITH EVERY MEASURE IN THE ADMINISTRATION'S LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM, HE IS DEFINITELY REPRESENTATIVE OF A LARGE BODY OF REPUBLICAN OPINION HERE . . . WE HAVE NEVER HAD CAUSE TO QUESTION HIS LOYALTY...
...plenty of time in the amphitheater, watching such Feld-sponsored attractions as the National Symphony Orchestra, the Ballet Theatre, Sopranos Dorothy Kirsten and Roberta Peters, Violinist Mischa Elman, Spanish Dancer Jose Greco (ticket prices: $1.25 to $3.00). While most other summer-music producers ? largely civic ?have to beg for contributions to keep going, Irv (35) and Izzy (39) stand a good chance of making it pay. For them summer music may make a respectable contribution to their total income, boost record sales. Their estimated 1954 Super-gross...
...background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow it up with Mary Magdalene next year. And the California organizations of Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews are beginning to get accustomed to waves of script-waving, sincere-talking cinemakers who beg them to scrutinize their movies for "anything offensive to your faith." As one movieman thoughtfully explained last week: "We are not theologians...
...Hobbyist Applesmith dreams of an all white Africa in which everything will "go like clockwork." He has lived in this dream for so long that he has begun to anticipate it by creating clockwork forms of living things. Applesmith's mechanical fox terrier bitch can be made to beg for tidbits. And, says Applesmith, "nothing in its expression reproaches you for denying it ... The owner of my bitch need never feel guilty...