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Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...some-time guidance of employer Miles Maleson, first loses a cinch divorce suit, then wins dismissal of a confidence man on a technicality, and finally returns as a substitute counsel to his own village in a slander trial. He wins, and from the public gallery his father leads the home-town parish in applause...
...Syrian politics ten years ago as a member of a vehemently anti-Communist right-wing political party. In Syria's brief and lackluster 1948 campaign against the Palestine Jews, he served as a volunteer-and improved the hour by smuggling arms intended for the front to his personal, home-town political organization in Hama...
While many businessmen will talk willingly with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...
Died. Walter Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump...