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Your lead story under the Press in the Jan. 11 TIME is an excellent report on the magnificent job Dillard Stokes of the Washington Post has done and is doing to expose Nazis and their agents and their dupes in the United States...
...Washington Post's grey, sharp managing editor Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones became convinced, that all the pro-isolationist, anti-Semitic propaganda that was then flooding the U.S. was more than mere coincidence. To Reporter Dillard Stokes, who has a nose sharpened by 19 years in U.S. newsrooms, has studied law and authored many a spare-time true detective story, Casey Jones gave a blank-check assignment: investigate and expose subversive activities -"take your time, be sure of your facts," then shoot the works...
...belligerent William Power Maloney, special assistant to the Attorney General, Dillard Stokes gave his evidence. For his courage and diligence he has received many a threatening letter. A woman phoned him every Saturday for six weeks, told him each time she was on her way to kill him. But his rewards have been many: he scooped other newsmen because he knew what the grand jury was doing, while they did not; he had the satisfaction of watching as the grand jury handed down 34 indictments based often on evidence Dillard Stokes had dug up; in July 1942 he received...
Said Casey Jones last week of Dillard Stokes: "He has handled probably the touchiest material we have printed in years, and he has been right all down the line." Another tribute to Stokes came a fortnight ago from Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Said the Senator, denouncing the prosecution of the alleged plotters as "a disgrace": ". . . You are nothing but a stooge for the Department of Justice, a little newspaper spy; it's a dirty business you are in and the time will come when you will all regret...
...team-including a back named Luck and two youngsters who, in their first season of varsity football, have given Sinkwich a run for Southern headlines. One is eagle-eyed Sophomore Eddie Prokop, a spectacular passer who, like Sinkwich, was lured from Ohio. The other is a native Atlantan: Clinton Dillard Castleberry Jr., who is already being dubbed the Red Earth's Red Grange. His flashy running and ability to pass the ammunition have contributed largely to the Engineers' big-time renaissance. So far this season. Georgia Tech has blasted six opponents in a row-including Notre Dame...