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...witnesses, two-thirds of them newsmen, filed out to report that Caryl Chessman, sentenced to die twelve years ago for kidnaping for robbery with bodily harm, had kept his ninth appointment in San Quentin's gas chamber...
Most startling about this phenomenon is the diversity of the issues involved. Such seemingly unrelated problems as integration, disarmament, loyalty oaths, and Caryl Chessman are all finding new activist outlets, and Harvard is only one of many colleges and universities where this sort of thing has occurred. The Woolworth’s pickets have appeared not only at such perennially crusading institutions as Swarthmore, but at Brown, Vassar, Smith, Hamilton, and other schools where nothing except an occasional pantyraid has ever mobilized the entire campus...
...This idea has reached its time” was right: Integration as an issue seems to have reached a crisis in recent months. But the time itself is pregnant. With the revival of SANE after a two-year hibernation and the abrupt recognition of a convict named Chessman who has been fighting for his life for 10 years will attest, there had to be a time for these ideas to reach...
Your March 21 cover story on Caryl Chessman was interesting and challenging to the minds of jurists and every American. Your decision to grace the cover with this man could only be made in America-freedom of the press. I must say, though, that such a decision-for Chessman to occupy the same position as men like Eisenhower, Dulles, Truman, Roosevelt, et al.-shocked me and failed to meet with my approval...
...TIME'S covers do not necessarily honor the subjects. They are based on news and significance, and at times are given to men TIME would never honor, e.g., Al Capone, Adolph Hitler, Caryl Chessman...