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Stuyvesant was neither the first nor the last New World citizen to vent a hatred almost as old as civilization itself. It is therefore all the more impressive that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,* which last week celebrated its 50th anniversary with President Kennedy as its honored guest, has in the short span of its lifetime (and with a considerable assist from Adolf Hitler) made a detectable dent in anti-Semitic expression...
Dinner with the President (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). J.F.K. is guest of honor at a B'nai B'rith dinner, with entertainment by folk singers and a folk ballet by Broadway Choreographer Hanya Holm...
...squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik's Oliver is singularly unaffecting, but Clive Revill's Fagin glints with eccentricity. This Fagin is not very Jewish (he has been viewed without alarm by representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith), but he is a strangely epicene miser whose furtive batlike swoopings on his treasure box and triple-tempo fingering of his baubles provide comic delight...
...Some of My Best Friends. . ." (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $4.50) is the title of a just-published study of U.S. antiSemitism, by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, national director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (founded in 1913 to combat antiminority prejudice...
...were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...