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DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT TIME'S DEC. 26 STORY ON "WISDOM" MAGAZINE WAS PRESENTED TO YOUR READERS WITH SUCH INACCURACY AND INDIFFERENCE. I AM NOT AN "EX-MOVIE PRESS-AGENT." I AM A FORMER SCREEN WRITER AND NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST ; MY LAST FILM ASSIGNMENT TOOK PLACE MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO ; SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO PREPARING AND DEVELOPING "WISDOM...
...been four months and eight days since President Eisenhower last met with the press to answer questions," wrote Columnist Roscoe Drummond in the New York Herald Tribune last week. Freeing Ike from the strain of press conferences has been justified, said Drummond, but by now the absence of direct contact between President and press has created a "dangerous vacuum"-harmful to the President, the public and the functioning of the Government. Drummond suggested that Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams might hold weekly press conferences until Ike is ready, or that Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty could accept a weekly sheaf...
...Even before the President's illness," argued Lippmann, "it was fair to argue that the oral questions and answers were not sufficiently informing-especially on intricate matters-and that they needed to be supplemented by written questions and written, that is to say deliberate and fully informed, answers." Columnist David Lawrence also advocated the written-question method as a permanent change. "The press conference of today," he wrote, "is an ordeal to which no President should be subjected." He thought it was the "biggest single strain" borne by Eisenhower since entering the White House...
...been issued only after he filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. But U.S. Trust & Guaranty never took out a corporate license. Shoemake promised 5% returns on "certified drafts," claimed that these deposits were 100% backed with cash reserves and investments. To plug his company, he hired Columnist Drew Pearson on TV ("You can put your trust in U.S. Trust"). Last June, the insurance commission discovered that U.S. Trust & Guaranty could not account for $300,000 of funds taken in. Furthermore, it was $1.5 million in the red. Rather than expose the company's condition and bring...
Something of Value, by Robert Ruark, was probably the most tastelessly written book of the year (unless it was Norman Mailer's The Deer Park). Around a hackneyed story, and leaning heavily on the writings of others about the Mau Mau troubles in Kenya, Columnist Ruark turned a determinedly lurid story into a top bestseller...