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Since their arrest last April, ten of the Panthers have been jailed in lieu of bail so high ($100,000 apiece) that many black New Yorkers now see the defendants as victims of white racism. Some Liberal whites agree. Conductor Leonard Bernstein has dunned his rich friends for the Panther defense fund, and last week an interracial group of ministers tried-and failed-to mortgage their churches to raise the Panthers' bail. While in the eyes of many, the Panthers are automatically guilty, to emotional sympathizers, they will be innocent whatever the trial decides...
...revisionist attacks on the New Deal, The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform, Bernard Bernstein of Stanford criticizes F.D.R. for inviting big business to take part in such governmental enterprises as the NRA, which gave capitalists a power over federal policy that they had never enjoyed before. It was only when threatened politically by Huey Long that Roosevelt moved to the left, and urged higher taxes, Social Security and a system of unemployment compensation. The scourge of big business, concludes Bernstein, was nothing more than a "doctrinaire of the center...
...Bernstein (lounging in an armchair in tartan slacks): You mean you've got to wing it. . .I dig absolutely...
...York Times's Charlotte Curtis, whose typewriter can deliver deft malice, was also in the crowd. Next morning she published some ludicrous exchanges-which Bernstein denies-between the field marshal of the pig-baiters and the aesthetic doge of the Upper East Side...
...Fashioned. Before the evening was over, guests scribbled out $3,000 in checks and pledges as contributions to the defense of the Panther 21. Producer-Director Otto Preminger recoiled when Cox called the U.S. "the most oppressive country in the world," yet he came through with $1,000, and Bernstein offered the fee for his next concert-a sum he expects to be well into four figures-for the defense cause...