Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Reverend Johnson's Inauguration speech [Jan. 29]: at long last, a lay Pope...
...Your cover story on today's youth [Jan. 29] was perceptive and compassionate. Our frenzied dance rituals, our pathetically selective cliques, our sodden and sadistic heroes, and our self-assured sex talk are a startling invective on the past and a desperate cry for help in the present. What we need is not increased material and worldly goods, but an increased awareness of and communication with one another. It seems to me that many modern parents have failed in their responsibility to inculcate worthwhile values...
...Your article on Sir Winston [Jan. 29] was most appropriate. I can't help wondering what might have been if the father of this great man had been American and his mother English. In all likelihood he would have ascended to the presidency. Britain needed him for its finest hour, that I won't dispute. In any event, it was our good fortune that he lived during our time. The thought of "President" Churchill, however, still fascinates...
...Senator Fulbright [Jan. 22] was right about Egypt's Aswan Dam, he was right about the Bay of Pigs, he was right about the Congo, and his views about Viet Nam seem to be most realistic. He certainly is a great Senator, with great political insight and human compassion...
...might be interested in the story behind the artist who originally painted the picture of the President's birthplace that the Kurds copied for the background of their Man of the Year cover [Jan. 1]. My mother, Etta Mae Humphreys, painted Johnson's birthplace last year, and after she presented her painting to the President in Washington, he wrote her that it was "a marvelous piece of work. You have captured a piece of my early years that mean a great deal to me." The President also owns her paintings of the LBJ Ranch and his boyhood home...