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...predominantly American Jews, had paid for their admission in advance to the tune of $475,000 worth of Israeli bonds to hear Baritone Robert Merrill, Concert Pianist Eugene List, Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott and Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden. The fund-raisers' target: an astonishing $8,000,000 for Israel...
...their names cleared. Cogley's strong implication: the "clearance men" are vicious operators, "with the power to wound and the power to heal the wound." Next day Counsel Arens called in the anonymous public-relations expert. He was Arnold Forster, general counsel for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League. Forster recalled an interview by a Cogley assistant, said he had not expected word-for-word quotation, and insisted that Cogley had quoted him incompletely. Though he had indeed linked newspapermen, advertising executives and American Legion officials to "clearance" activities that could "un-blacken" performers...
...Ohio, Governor Lausche was so impressed by Ed Darby's incessant questioning that he winced whenever our correspondent took out his notebook. One evening, addressing the Dayton chapter of the B'nai B'rith, the governor spoke of the state's system of using penitentiary inmates, awaiting parole, as trusties about the governor's mansion. He noted that a trusty had chauffeured him from the Capitol to Dayton. Later, in a restaurant, the wife of one of the B'nai B'rith officers leaned over to the governor and, with a sidelong glance...
Then B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League protested that the Camelback took in only gentiles. Brownell let it be known that he would not stay there; so did some state attorneys general. That left the attorneys general little choice but to move...
...nai B'rith Hillel Foundation had already formally accepted Hastie's previous offer. In a letter to Hastie last Tuesday, Martin W. Brownstein '56, Millel president, accepted the office space--presumably to be on the third floor of PBH--but declined the endowment funds "at this time...