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...with thousands of letters and phone calls. In the mail, blasts from McCarthy supporters outnumbered praise for the series by about five to one. But more than half the pro-McCarthy mail was anonymous, while virtually all the anti-McCarthy mail was signed. Said one S-H executive: "The crank mail usually outnumbers the sensible mail about five to one." Woltman, veteran anti-Communist reporter and never a member of the party or anything close to it, got letters addressed to "Comrade Woltman" and "Freddy Jewish Woltman"; he was denounced as everything from a "Communist agent" to "Freddy the Stink...
...Holy Bible, a comfort and a bulwark of doctrine for plain Christians, is a mighty challenge for serious scholars and a treasure trove for cranks. The ordinary layman reads little of the work of either-scholars are all too often unreadable, cranks are generally unpublishable. But when a crank has the reputation and writing ability of Novelist Robert (I, Claudius) Graves, publishers are glad to let him run on for page after page. The Nazarene Gospel Restored (Doubleday; $10), by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro, published last week, runs...
...Flying Friars normally operate in teams of three. Whenever they hear of a Communist meeting or rally, they crank up their ancient Fiat, and bear down on the local piazza, loudspeakers, documentary films and tape recorders at the ready, fighting for a chance to give their side a hearing, too. During the June Italian elections, one of the-friars, heckling a Communist speaker, quoted the man against himself. "But I never said that," the orator shouted, "not even in my dreams." The friar quickly turned on a recording of the Communist's remarks in question. Cried...
...Brighton at last, while watching More crank up to a seduction scene with his girl, the husband begins to wonder darkly, "What happened on the '49 run?" when his wife, before they were married, made the trip in the yellow Spyker. His discontent takes the form of a belligerent insistence that his car is better than the other, and the two soon rooster each other into a race back to London, with the rash sum of ?100 riding on the outcome...
Unlike most airplane pilots, ex-Marine Reuben Snodgrass waits expectantly for bad weather. When the clouds crowd down, or sea fog rolls in over Long Island's MacArthur Field, Rube and his crew crank up the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s DC-3 and take...