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...shouts of "Remember Pearl Harbor" from hecklers, one of the Hiroshima survivors told how his parents had been killed in the atomic attack and the responsibility for raising him had fallen on a destitute grandmother. The pilgrims, who are currently on a world tour, read a telegram of "good wishes" from President Kennedy to the people of Hiroshima...
...Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that he would expose Tito's invasion plans if they were not called off. Five months later Tito made his break with Stalin...
...Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, a staunch 1960 supporter of Nixon, commented dryly: "One especially wonders how he'd have explained himself if he had been elected President-committed and willing to execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found...
...telegram sent to 40 civic leaders last Friday, Niebuhr called for protests against McDew's arrest. Besides Niebuhr, signers of the telegram were A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League...
...blowzy landlady while making a 4 a.m. getaway without paying for their pad. But Williams was a fastidious hobohemian who sent his laundry home to mother and was regularly bailed out of total penury by $10 bills in letters from his grandmother. While in California, Tennessee got a telegram announcing that he had won the New York contest and a prize of $100. "I remember," says Parrott, "that he had a handful of letters from agents asking to handle his writing and he took them and went 'eeny, meeny, miney, mo.' " Mo turned out to be Audrey Wood...