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Your lead story under the Press in the Jan. 11 TIME is an excellent report on the magnificent job Dillard Stokes of the Washington Post has done and is doing to expose Nazis and their agents and their dupes in the United States.
Your story would have been better yet, I think, if your mention of the Heywood Broun Memorial Award, which Stokes received last year, had explained that this is an annual award of the American Newspaper Guild to the newspaperman who does the best job in the spirit of the founder...
In 1901, after the death of Owner Edward S. Stokes,* the Hoffman House's art treasures (valued around $200,000) were sold. Nymphs and Satyr vanished until last year, when Durand-Ruel Director Herbert H. Elfers stumbled on the legendary canvas in a Manhattan warehouse. Today it is anonymously...
*Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House.
Stokes published the Senator's remark, as well as pictures of Wheeler being hailed by one Frank F. Ferenz, later convicted as a Nazi agent.