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...Demonic Influence." Kayden was protesting Sewanee's decision to award another honorary degree to a famed alumnus ('25): Editor Thomas R. Waring of the Charleston, S.C.. News and Courier, the South's most segregationist newspaper. Kayden was not alone. One former South Carolina Episcopal minister, now living in Ohio, was so disgusted that Sewanee should give Waring a doctorate of civil law that he sent a brochure of Waring's writings to leading Episcopalians across the country. "Those who have lived in South Carolina," wrote the Rev. Ralph E. Cousins Jr., "can vouch...
Readily Available. But the Charleston News and Courier sighted in on far bigger game: "Not much time remains for the education of John F. Kennedy. In his first great crisis, he bungled horribly." The Chicago Tribune, while joining the general applause for Kennedy's forceful statement on Cuba before a meeting of newspaper editors in Washington, suggested that the time had come for presidential action to speak louder than presidential words. Kennedy's speech, said the Tribune, "did not answer the questions which arise from his statement that the climax in the struggle against Communism would come...
...Waldorf Towers, servants were busy setting the long, polished table. U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was expecting Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin and ten of his aides for lunch. There would be good food, good wines, and, hopefully, over the coffee and cigars, some quiet, profitable talk. But suddenly a Soviet courier appeared with a scribbled, abrupt message. The lunch was off, apologized Zorin, due to the press of unexpected business...
...ecstatic: "An inspiring, eloquent and straightforward address." Said the San Francisco Chronicle: "Good for him for having the courage to believe that the American people are strong enough, wise enough and resolute enough to accept a rigorous demand for harder, more intense national and individual effort." Echoed the Louisville Courier-Journal: "Challenge and direction are providing us with a sense of exhilaration, of purpose, even when they are accompanied by solemn warning...
...dishonest man, to say nothing of giving the criminal Communist conspiracy a powerful assist in its drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being as dumb and deceitful as that." When President Eisenhower severed relations with Cuba, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier found Kennedy's silence "cause for apprehension," the Christian Science Monitor's William Stringer found it "traditional behavior," and the Boston Herald found it reprehensible: "An endorsement by him of the President's Cuban stand would have done him no harm and would have greatly strengthened the country...