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Stuyvesant was neither the first nor the last New World citizen to vent a hatred almost as old as civilization itself. It is therefore all the more impressive that the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith,* which last week celebrated its 50th anniversary with President Kennedy as its honored guest, has in the short span of its lifetime (and with a considerable assist from Adolf Hitler) made a detectable dent in anti-Semitic expression...
...after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...
...impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness on that." Old Bennett was horsewhipped with a frequency startling even for a time when this was a customary way for readers to suggest disapproval. He showed little resentment of the whippings and reported them fully...
...wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...
Major's 45-man staff has an eagle eye for cost-cutting detail, designs houses so that no odd-length beams have to be sawed and two bathrooms can be linked to one $65 vent. Explains a company executive: "If you're talking about 1,000 units, a $50 bill on every house becomes quite a piece of change.'' Like many another innovator, Cluff Major stumbled onto tractitioning. Raised in Thatcher, Ariz., he planned to be an architect, but when his family could not afford to send him to college, he settled for the next best...