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...have read your write-up on Ed Crump and Memphis (TiME, May 27) . . . and I resent the insinuation you have made at our white men with Negro mistresses, which is [an] insult to our white citizens...
...that Elack had used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...library. It is a question of this greater expansion of which Lamont may be only the beginning. The University must not allow the Yard to disintegrate into just another Cambridge block. To do this while disregarding outside and convenient sites is to misuse a treasured locale and insult generations of men who have lived there...
Betrayal! cried 17 high-ranking British civil servants in a furious letter to the Times-"the people of the Straits Settlements and of the Malay States are being coerced . . . without regard to democratic principles." Ex-Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley accused the Government of going "out of their way to insult the Sultans...
...declared Priestley, "but to offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...