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Somehow I have a deep, disquieting, indeed fearful premonition that TIME will select Governor Faubus...
...faubus on TIME. Having defined "faubus" as intransitive [Oct. 7], you faubused by making it synonymous with the transitive "bollix," and made a really orval faubus when you used it transitively: "The Democratic Party has been faubused." You ain't no Preservator of grammar...
...Faubus' latest lie came in a letter addressed to "Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, Commander of Occupation Troops." Because of the sneering (and incorrect) address. Walker, a tough Texan, returned the letter unopened. Governor Faubus, playing his little game, had already released it to the press. Two days later, asked for documented facts, the governor fell back upon his favorite saying: "I do not choose to release them at this time." He did, however, display news photographs of a paratrooper general and aides walking past girls playing softball outside the school. What connection could these pictures have with...
Having worked the classroom for all its demagogic worth. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus last week descended to what the Washington Post and Times Herald called "the lavatory level." U.S. paratroopers, he cried, were escorting Negro students into the girls' locker room at Little Rock's Central High School-and were lingering around to leer at ungarbed young Southern white womanhood. The facts of the matter proved Orval Faubus less a master of morals than mendacity...
Among those who sat with heads bowed were some of Orval Faubus' closest associates. The Governor himself was fooled up in the Executive Mansion with a cold -and his conscience...