Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...
...Complained that "this whole miserable massacre of character'' resulted from the vengeful attitude of John Fox, former publisher of the defunct Boston Post (TIME, July 7)-and all because Goldfine had demanded payment from Fox of a legal debt. Said Goldnne: "It's not pleasant to have to talk about Mr. Fox because he seems like a sick man to me. He's crazy like...
...Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil...
Ordass has been persecuted by the Reds ever since he opposed nationalization of church schools, in 1948 was jailed for 20 months on a trumped-up charge. Later he was stripped of his post as primate of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. In 1956, partly because of pressure from Lutherans the world over, he was finally cleared, resumed his post. Last year Ordass got permission to attend an international Lutheran assembly in Minneapolis (TIME, Aug. 19), but after his return, he was slapped in the Red press for his "antiCommunist addresses," was replaced by Collaborationist Bishop Lajos Veto as Hungary...
...Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs...