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...charges that he had conspired with two attaches of the Japanese Embassy to sell U. S. Navy secrets (TIME, July 27 et seq.), bibulous onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth last fortnight pleaded nolo contendere, throwing himself on the court's mercy. Few days later he tried vainly to change his plea. Last week, grey and broken at 43, the temperamental Annapolis graduate who was cashiered from the Navy ten years ago appeared in court, paled as he heard the return he would have to make for the $20,000 he was paid to betray his country...
...last week's ashes, little radical third parties could dream of rising in a new and greater incarnation. For the Union Party's ambitious triumvirate, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and Preacher Smith, the bird indicated by the democracy last week was not the phoenix but the dodo...
...your article, "Dodo's Price," under Army & Navy, in the issue of Aug. 24, you refer to Farnsworth as "one of the most brilliant men ever to graduate from the U. S. Naval Academy...
...second "squawk" concerns "Dodo" itself. Here certainly is an elegant name. Twenty-five years ago at the Naval Academy I was the member of a menagerie which an upperclassman collected from among the lowly plebes for the purpose of mild hazing. My place of honor was, as the "Dodo" bird, no uncertain one. I recall that I condescended to associate, at intervals, with the "Wahoo Wahoo" bird and several other fowl of lesser degree. This lasted about one month - since that time I have not been honored with this title except by one classmate - now dead - and yourself. In fact...
Until recent publication of your fascinating "Dodo" articles I credited your magazine with average honest reporting. I now can pity the unfortunate individual who is not gifted with a sense of humor. I managed to get a good laugh, which might have been heartier if the situation were not so serious, in spite of the fact that there are not two accurate sentences in your entire first five paragraphs as published in TIME, Aug. 24, entitled "Dodo's Price...