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...wonder if Mrs. "Pepperidge" Rudkin [March 21] has ever eaten a real, long, fresh, crunchy French loaf. Has she ever tasted the hard, dark bread from the Canton Valais in Switzerland? If she had, she would not have the gall to talk about showing Europe "how to make good bread...
Editor Don R. Mellett of the now defunct Canton, Ohio News was a newsman of the Front Page stripe: a tough and incorruptible crusader, he uncovered an unholy alliance between racketeers and the Canton city government, was gunned down by his enemies in 1926 and became one of U.S. journalism's martyrs. Last week in Norman, Okla., at the thirty-first annual Don R. Mellett Memorial Lecture, Lee Hills, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, used' the occasion to measure the gulf between the journalism of Mellett's time and today. Said Hills: "For many years...
...Shoppers. In fact, the Communists seem to be erecting a new matriarchy. Two weeks ago 80 million women were "organized" to see the new film, Silver Blossoms in the Sky, the story of China's female paratroopers. And in Shanghai, Peking and Canton, one Swiss traveler observed the weirdest sight of all-long lines of dutiful men who had been sent out by their women before dawn to wait, shopping baskets in hand, for the markets to open...
Pete Quesada, FAA administrator, may be too independent to suit airline and union brass. But back in 1937 Captain Pete and his dachshund "Otto" were GI favorites at Fort Leavenworth. Of the 45 Army fliers there, Pete and ten others later became generals. EARL E. WILLIAMS North Canton, Ohio...
...press. Some days, Peking's official People's Daily carried not a word about them. Instead, the official Communist Chinese news agency cranked out reams about the harsh treatment of overseas Chinese in the land Khrushchev was visiting. A boatload of returned compatriots docked last week in Canton, and Communist newspapers played up stories that "many suffered destruction or plunder of their property" after the Indonesian government banned them last January from doing business in rural areas. "In the name of inspection," the Reds charged darkly, "Indonesian officials insulted Chinese girl students." One Communist newspaper imparted a whiff...