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This blunt statement comes from Philip H. Phenix, 46, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Most U.S. schools firmly believe that they do provide the values he demands. On the premise that happy men create a healthy society, they teach and beseech children to use their abilities. By thus stressing self-realization, the schools in theory promote "the greatest good to the greatest number." It is Philosopher Phenix's jarring argument that all this is morally shallow-that U.S. schools in fact promote selfishness...
Latter-Day Crusader. Ironically, John Patterson built his political career in large part on a reputation for enforcing the law. He was raised in wide-open Phenix City, where the gamblers and the madams catered to soldiers from nearby Fort Benning. Patterson played the slot machines as a kid, drank his share of "wildcat" whisky and, with time out for Army service during World War II and in Korea, turned into just another easygoing Alabama lawyer. But in 1954 his father, Albert Patterson, was murdered by racketeers 17 days after winning the Democratic nomination for state attorney general...
...Patterson was elected to his dead father's job, led the fight to mop up the mob in Phenix City. More important, he became a hero to many an Alabama voter by putting the N.A.A.C.P. out of business in the state for refusing to disclose membership lists. He fought Negro boycotts of stores in Tuskegee and of buses in Montgomery...
Boyish-looking John Patterson appeared on the Alabama political scene in 1954 when his father, Albert Patterson, then the reform-minded nominee for attorney general, was shot to death by hoodlums in vice-ridden Phenix City. Young John promptly filed for attorney general in his father's place, won easily, later helped in the drive to clean up Phenix City...
Last month Frank C. Allen, managing editor of the States (circ. 103,583), had a bright idea. Allen had started as a reporter on the Birmingham News, had later read with interest Strickland's detailed accounts of corruption in Phenix City. As far as he knew, Strickland's face was unknown in Jefferson Parish, and after a quick phone call to News Managing Editor Vincent Townsend, Allen borrowed Strickland for a couple of weeks...