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...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...Lord Thomson of Fleet has never laid eyes on the Ozark mountains. But ever on the lookout for profitable little newspapers, Thomson's North American agents cast covetous eyes on the Northwest Arkansas Times (circ. 14,825) of Fayetteville. The daily has been in Senator J. William Fulbright's family since 1913; last week it became Lord Thomson's latest U.S. acquisition. It brought the total of Thomson papers in the U.S. to 56-the largest U.S. chain...
...usual combination of factors caused the Fulbright family to sell: lack of interest on the part of younger members, pressure of other affairs, and a handsome offer from Thomson: nearly $3,000,000. Senator Fulbright owned a substantial share of stock in the Times, but he is not likely to miss the paper much. As a youth, he worked for it only occasionally. But in a way, he has it to thank for his political career. In 1940 he was president of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville when the paper harshly criticized Homer Adkins, who was running for Governor...
Brower will spend next year at Oxford on a Fulbright Fellowship. He will lecture on English and finish a book on Shakespeare. Kaiser plans to use his leave to finish a book on Spenser...
...While he was asking Secretary Rusk about all the money that wasn't going into the ghettos," McGill relates, "Fulbright managed to take time out to go vote against the Open Housing bill...