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...flag in Mississippi at which CCC members handed out Confederate flags, white supremacist Richard Barrett said that the Confederate flag 'signifies the real American way of life as it was before James Meredith and Earl Warren, and as it can and will be again.'" He does not tell the reader that Barrett is not and never has been a member of the CofCC or that Barrett was not present at the only demonstration in support of the Confederate flag that the CofCC has helped organize in Mississippi. I do not know whether CofCC members may have been present...
There's wisdom in the Reader's Digest bromide that laughter is the best medicine; we could name two recent invalids whose hearts were lifted by David Sedaris' impression of Billie Holiday singing the Oscar Mayer jingle on NPR. But waking old folks at midnight and making loud mischief seem like a manic camp counselor's idea of fun: indoctrination by comedy. The supporting characters, from the hospital dean (Harve Presnell) to Patch's girlfriend (Monica Potter), are similarly bludgeoned. They begin as skeptics and end, their wills crushed, as dewy believers...
...Curious George too draws curious stares; many are familiar with the little monkey but not his tale. "What is shocking is that nobody in education is willing to say there are writers, poems, essays and books all Americans should read," says education expert Diane Ravich, editor of The American Reader. And less incentive for adventurous teachers to look for new ones...
...reveal to us that "the little boy in the photo is me." Another photo intrigued an Argentine woman who asked about a picture in our 75th-anniversary issue showing a little girl receiving a polio shot. Even though the caption said the photo was taken in Alabama, and our reader had no recollection of ever having lived there, she thought, just maybe, it was she. Go figure...
Here's a head scratcher. A reader wrote, "In the '50s there was a filmed musical called Scheherezade. Who played the Russian navy officer who was able to hide a cigarette in his mouth?" The movie was Song of Scheherezade; it was released in 1947; and the captain was Brian Donlevy...