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...news-letter because I was "tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print." On the contrary I started my Weekly as a last resort after the New York Daily Compass closed because for years under Ted O. Thackrey, the late John P. Lewis, Ralph Ingersoll, Freda Kirchwey, J. David Stern and Harry T. Saylor I enjoyed a quarter century of such freedom and old-fashioned crusading journalism that I was spoiled for anything else. Brackman's account may be excused as the triumph of novelistic libido over reportorial virtue. Otherwise it was a most endearing tribute...
...FREDA S. Moss Kingsport, Tenn...
Last June a Sydney salesman named Bazil Thorne and his wife Freda won ?100.000 ($225,000) in a state lottery to raise money for Sydney's new opera house. They vowed that they would not let the money go to their heads. They went right on living in their modest brick duplex in suburban Bondi and invested their new wealth. The only member of the Thorne family to get excited over the windfall was eight-year-old Graeme, a third-grader at a private school called Scots College...
Fearfully, Freda Thorne called the local police. An hour later, as a policeman sat in the Thorne living room taking notes, the phone rang. "Is this Mrs. Thorne?" asked a man's guttural voice. *'I have your boy." Wordlessly. Freda Thorne passed the receiver to the policeman. "I have your son." the voice repeated. "I want ?25,000 by 5 o'clock tonight, or I'll feed him to the sharks...
Henry Regnery has published a spate of works by such right-wing authors as William F. Buckley Jr., Chesly Manly, Louis Budenz, William Henry Chamberlain and Freda Utley. He seems to act as a magnet for those who hate Roosevelt, champion Joe McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn...