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...Veritas group first questioned Schlesinger's professional integrity late in 1957, when Robert H. Montgomery '30 initiated a long and detailed correspondence with Dean Bundy. Attempting to prove "deliberate falsehood" and "suppression of the truth" in Schlesinger's treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti murder case, Montgomery pointed out at least three factual errors, and the omission of the "single most damning piece of evidence"--the .32 calibre pistol carried by Saco and containing the rare and absolete type of cartridge that killed the guard...
...people also think about how to keep the peace. If only they would tell us how to do it. They teach us things we already know... We can't trust our reporters, can't believe our radio and TV programs. They all distort the truth. Our professors are immortalizing falsehood. For 4 years the university administration stuffs us with lies. This is not only in Stanford...
Lewis Strauss had not even come close to accusing Anderson of deliberate falsehood, but on television's Face the Nation he did point out that although most of the current agitation for stopping nuclear tests was "completely innocent of any political motive," there was also evidence of "a kernel of very intelligent, deliberate propaganda." Clint Anderson blew up. Cried he of Strauss: "He seeks to become the modern apostle of McCarthyism...
...bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass for any serious assaults upon Winchell, trotted out the photo and a sour-prefaced retraction. Though "happy to set the record straight," Paar recalled a "complete falsehood" that Winchell had hung on Paar in 1955 and had never corrected. (The squib: "Friends of the Jack Paars ... are worrying".) "Most damaging to any family man," snapped Jack...
...constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing so much to negate. Thus in the first volume...