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...Southern newspaper reactions to Franklin Roosevelt's "Purge" act against Senator Walter George last week at Barnesville, Ga. were chiefly adverse. The Atlanta Constitution snorted: "He would turn the United States Senate into a gathering of 96 Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms." Atlanta Journal: "Great is the President's prestige, and great the admiration in which Georgians hold him. But assuredly he cannot do their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins...
...addition to its own intense egocentricity, Hollywood's concern with show business is obviously prompted by the necessity for showing off personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this...
Died. Dennis Francis Kelly, 69, self-made Chicago philanthropist, good Catholic lay leader, retired president of The Fair (department store); of pneumonia; in Bergen, Norway...
...reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest, 5) Esquire, 6) Foreign Affairs, 7) the Portland, Ore. Journal, 8) Liberty, 9) the New York Times...
...Bergen Evening Record came to grief for running, in its "Voice of the People Forum," a letter attacking Jesus Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...