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...group of citizens including Charles A. Coolidge '17, a member of the Corporation, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday sent President Truman a telegram demanding "a ceasefire and withdrawal of all foreign trops from Korea...
Since their "please resign" telegram to Superintendent Willard Goslin three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 27), the Pasadena board of education had received some vehement samples of Pasadena public opinion. While anti-Goslinites expressed their satisfaction, supporters of the able, widely known superintendent (he is a former president of the American Association of School Administrators), vociferously displeased, demanded reconsideration. The secretary of the board went hoarse handling incoming phone calls...
...Religion has been doing a good selling job," said E. N. Jacquin of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette. "Religious promotion efforts, plus the perplexities of modern life" were the causes, said M. H. Williams of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram-Gazette. David Patten of the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin answered: "Religious people seem to want everyone else to get religion...
...fortnight ago Pasadena's board of education decided that the controversy had gone far enough. It sent a telegram to Goslin, attending a conference in Manhattan, asking for his resignation...
Riddled? Back in Pasadena to discuss the telegram with his school board last week, Superintendent Goslin was in a philosophic mood: "Whenever the properly elected representatives of the community demand my resignation," he said, "I regard it as mandatory to resign." His attitude suggested that as soon as he had reached a salary settlement with the board, he would resign as requested. But Pasadena was in for a surprise. For the first time, hundreds of citizens who had remained silent began writing and phoning their protests to the board. A group of businessmen and churchmen, led by wealthy Industrialist Philip...