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This conversation is the newsiest part of Salinger's book. He also touches on the Cuban missile crisis by printing portions of the reports sent to the President by John Scali, the newscaster who had been chosen by the Soviets as an intermediary in the early stages of the negotiation. "I participated in the decision to ask Scali to hold his silence on negotiations," Salinger writes...
This week, in one of its newsiest Opinion Mondays, the Supreme Court: ¶ Outlawed the Jim Crow segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars on interstate trips. ¶ Ordered the University of Texas to admit Heman Sweatt, Negro, to its all-white law school, on the ground that the Negro law school that Texas had set up was not the equivalent of Texas' law school for whites...
...about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...newsiest whizzer on Tuesday nights is Pot o' Gold, sponsored by Turns, which offers $1,000 each week over the telephone to someone selected by a studio Wheel of Fortune out of a collection of U. S. telephone books. In its brief span on the air (since Sept. 26), Pot o' Gold has handed out $20,000 to stay-at-homes from Massachusetts to California, has almost tripled its audience to a hopeful 15,000,000 or so. Despite the enormous odds against winning, some ardent rainbow-chasers do no telephoning while Pot o' Gold...
...Intelligencer waited a week longer it would have been a dunce to declare no news. Last week was one of the newsiest weeks for small-town editors since Halley's Comet...
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