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...wherever he preaches salvation, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Oct. 25) unwittingly made some British enemies. Up to his nonclerical collar in a "Tell Scotland" crusade, Graham found himself in the rough, both on a Scottish golf course and in the minds of England's organized animal lovers. The ruckus began when he started a BBC broadcast with a bland enough statement: "Fishes belong to the sea, animals belong to the jungle, human beings belong to God." But to Britain's buffalo-chip-on-shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were fighting words. More fuel was poured into...
...name like that deserves to have (and has) two Queens, got official word that he will be welcome in the U.S. Polygamist Tribhubana, in Switzerland for repairs on his heart, had earlier mentioned that he might go to the U.S. for further treatment. A Zurich busybody started an international ruckus by warning a royal aide that U.S. immigration laws would prevent the King and his wives from so much as getting off the boat. After a chorus of hospitable noises arose from the U.S. State Department, the U.S. consul general in Zurich last week proclaimed that Tribhubana and his exotic...
...bring you extra items of interest about the news you read in TIME. For example, in the cover story on Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper (TIME, July 5), we used the term "whittledycut" and defined it as meaning a real fine horse race. This created a lively ruckus in Kentucky and elsewhere, with readers writing in to challenge the definition (it was correct); others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention of the word. Every week readers have their say on subjects ranging from National Affairs all through...
...those eleven weeks, Bradfordsville's marathon school strike has turned into a full-fledged civic crusade and a major religious ruckus. It began when the Marion County school board decided to shut down the Bradfordsville high school and to transfer its students to Lebanon, ten miles away. The board tried to explain that it had only one motive for its action: it merely wanted to provide better facilities through consolidation. But to the citizens of Bradfordsville. the whole scheme seemed some sort of plot...
...biggest radio ruckus was caused by ABC's Disk Jockey Martin Block who virtuously announced that he would no longer play Columbia Records' Mambo Italiano. Reason: he had been told that some Sicilian words in the lyrics, particularly the word for "cucumber" (spelled phonetically in the lyrics as "jadrool"), had a dirty meaning. Mitch Miller at Columbia Records promptly produced letters from an Italian-American priest and a professor of languages at New York University denying that the vernacular words used in the song "could possibly be construed as offensive to anyone." At week's end Block...