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...Hugh Sidey...
...loved Hugh Sidey's article about the demise of his family's old newspaper printing press [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 4]. It brought back many fond memories. I was just 13 in 1944 when I got a job at the Alta Advocate in Dinuba, Calif. Every Thursday the rumble and roar of the news press came to life. She was a Country Campbell flatbed built in 1889. My usual chores were sweeping up and cleaning the job presses while Jake, the publisher, made up the front page. By 7 p.m. we lugged the forms to the bed of the press...
...Sidey's story brought back a flood of pleasant memories. I was born in 1922 in Hugh's hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, and grew up there. I learned a lot about printing and photography from his father Kenneth. Many an hour I spent with Ken, learning how to develop and print my own film (in his darkroom) and hearing the rumble of that press in the background. JACK FOSTER Prescott, Ariz...
...unite this nation in this hour." When it was pointed out that if he didn't run, Republican Barry Goldwater would get the White House, Johnson responded: "Well, that's all right. I don't care. I think he can do better than I can." TIME's Hugh Sidey says the tape caught the classic LBJ doldrums. "He was just victimized by Kennedy's death. The Camelot existed in many minds, still does. There was just a huge number of people who couldn't stand to see LBJ take power and I don't think, even despite his victory...
...High Sidey's commentary urging that the memorial statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt [AMERICAN SCENE, April 28] show him in a wheelchair made me want to scream. Are we building a memorial to a great President or to a distinguished polio victim? If I were famous enough to have a memorial statue, would the hearing impaired of America demand it show me with a hearing aid in each ear? We are fortunate that the protesters don't demand the memorial represent F.D.R. by an empty wheelchair. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...