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...Blame for Conway...
...Robert Conway has been nominated as the "Biggest Damn Fool of the Year" [TIME, April 22]. . . . The blame is not on Conway. He is but a tool, an agent of the New York Daily News and its readers. The News and its allied organs do not exist in a vacuum, printing blasts of prejudice from an editorial ivory tower contrary to the opinions of the rest of mankind. They exist because their millions of readers want to believe perversions of the truth...
...Robert Conway and the New York Daily News, which he represents, think there is no hunger in Europe today [TIME, April 1]. Conway ate well in black market restaurants in England, France, and Italy. He was never so well fed in America since Pearl Harbor, he reports; therefore, no one starves in Europe. . . . Is this what complacent America wants to hear, while a half-billion people starve...
...have just returned from nine months in Europe, mostly in the three countries Conway gourmandized in at New York nightclub prices. . . . The official rations are 680 calories (a day) in Italy now. Try it, Mr. Conway, and compare it with your black market restaurants, or with America's normal diet of over 3,000 calories...
...First Nomination: Robert Conway of the New York Daily News [TIME, April 1]. He will have, I am certain, no serious competition...