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Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary...
...carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson seemed to take on a celestial glow as she belted her way through a hymn in her Chicago church. Narrator-Host John Crosby, looking better on film than live (TIME, Nov. 18), avoided any religious comment. His secular summation: "The history of evangelism suggests that Billy Graham's popularity will begin to wane in about two years. It also suggests that in about 40 years some other fervent proclaimer will come along and find a mass audience ready and waiting...
...Concentrating on the very real dangers of inflation, FRB Chairman Martin and his experts barked so long and so loud that they sounded as if the Federal Reserve was determined to keep credit tight come what may. Only a fortnight ago Chairman Martin preached harshly about inevitable declines (TIME, Nov. 18). As it turned out, says Martin, "I talked too long"-meaning he may have laid it on too thick. Now Martin, who is no man to overstay the market, finally agreed with many businessmen that the risks of deflation outweigh the problems of inflation. He wants...
FIRST U.S. TURBOPROP, the 410-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra, rolled off production lines a month ahead of schedule in race to beat Boeing's 600-m.p.h. pure jet 707 (TIME, Nov. 11) onto commercial air lanes. Lockheed has 141 firm orders for the $2,000,000 plane, is scheduled to make first delivery to Eastern Air Lines in August...