Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomat from Texas Sir: In your Sept. 26 issue you mention "State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson." This name, among our diplomatic representatives, has never caught my eye before. Thirty years ago I "lost" a schoolmate at University of Texas who said he was going into diplomacy. His name was Jack (John D.) Hickerson . . . We worked our way through school delivering newspapers and owning a shoeshine parlor . . . Is he our old friend...
...your review of Isaac Deutscher's Stalin: A Political Biography [TIME, Oct. 10], you mention that Stalin in Siberian exile under the Czar received food parcels and picture postcards from his mother-in-law. Can you tell me whether Siberian exiles under Stalin are permitted to receive such gifts from the folks back home...
...Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
Just by way of mention, there was a $975 gift to buy Spanish Civil War newspapers and another gift of $3,000 to the "Navaho Ceremony Fund...
...decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention the pursuit of happiness...