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Galbraith was invited early this month to speak at the dedication of the city's new $2.5 million library Oct. 30. Last Tuesday, Salt Lake City's mayor, J. Bracken Lee, a noted ultraconservative, wrote a protest to the Public Library Board and commented, "If you insist on having a man like Mr. Galbraith, you might also consider finding someone else to accept the building on behalf of Salt Lake City instead of myself...
...intellectual dandy who relished the great world of London where he cut so fine a figure. He believed that he spoke for the underside of English life, but in the nature of things he had ceased to belong to it. "Bellinger Bolshevik," jeered Conservative Brendan Bracken as Bevan lolled in Lord Beaverbrook's drawing room. Unmoved, Bevan retorted that Beaver-brook's Bollinger was better champagne than he was offered at Bracken's house. A good riposte, but was this scene another of "the radiant ambiguities of the word Socialism...
...Cleon Skousen, a balding, bespectacled onetime FBIman who hit the anti-Communist circuit in earnest in 1960. after being fired from his job as Salt Lake City's police chief ("He operated the police department like a Gestapo." says Salt Lake City's conservative Mayor J. Bracken Lee). Skousen freely quotes the Bible, constantly plugs his book, The Naked Communist, presses for a full congressional investigation of the State Department...
...book is, in fact, rather upsetting. Mr. Wilson has in him the wit of a Kingsley Amis and the erudition of a Dorothy L. Sayers, but he will insist on writing by the standards of the bracken. He is, indeed, in danger of choking off these talents altogether; and that, of course, would be no small misfortunte...
Traverse City, Mich., Cherry County Playhouse: Eddie Bracken stars in Broadway's 1959 comedy, The Golden Fleecing...