Word: frosts
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...want to get into the argument between Mr. Epstein and Mr. Garry (CRIMSON, March 3). However, I have read Mr. Epstein's article in the New Yorker and heard Mr. Garry here last week. I also saw the last 15 or 20 minutes of the David Frost show on Monday, and I cannot blame Mr. Garry if he shows his impatience with a middle-class white person who in 1971 suggests that Mr. Garry settle "for a mostly white middle-class jury" in the trial of Bobby Seale, when this same person can speak of the shooting of black persons...
...Frost, Epstein, and Garry grew visibly angry during' the discussion, and Garry frequently referred to Epstein as a "liar," a "windbag," a "racist," and "an agent...
After Garry labeled Epstein a "racist," Frost retorted, "No one who is familiar with Mr. Epstein's record would believe such a charge...
Epstein last night said that he did not know what Frost could have been referring to in his record which would contradict Garry's charge of racism. He stated that he had no history of civil rights activity, for example, but that it was possible that Frost had been trying to protect himself or Garry from a libel action by Epstein...
Epstein then admitted, however, that since as a "public figure" he would find it difficult or impossible to collect damages for libel. Frost's defense of his racial attitudes was superfluous...