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...Most people calling here," Hall said in his Alabama drawl, "got a bad conscience, a family trouble, or are just plain lonely. Men running away from their wives, crooks, gamblers. The most distinguished and the most vile. When they ask what's my message for this morning, I know they're repeaters and I feel like the president of a sunshine factory. I wear hand-me-downs, and eat of the spirit, and I'm so happy I don't want to go to bed nights." One night last week, after a five-week illness...
...Boston, Attorney General Howard McGrath told newsmen: "Newspapers enjoying unlimited freedom from Government interference can be, have been and are, some of them, vile and dishonorable: beyond all understanding . . . [But] under this Administration there will be no implied, no disguised, no direct and no indirect censorship . . . even if the tiny group of malcontents who traduce your Government from day to day were to increase and intensify their output twenty fold...
Last December The Miracle was put on by Manhattan's Paris Theater as one of three shorts under the overall title, Ways of Love (TIME, Dec. 18). Cardinal Archbishop Spellman denounced it as not only a "vile and harmful picture," but also "a despicable affront to every Christian . . . a mockery of our faith." He demanded that the license for The Miracle's showing be revoked by the New York State board of regents. If the board did not have the necessary power, he implied that U.S. Roman Catholics would go all out to change the censorship laws. Promptly...
...Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, "I was told the difference between the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was that Senators were too old to have affairs. They only have relations. Ever since I got into the Senate, I have been trying to dispel that vile calumny-and not without success...
...tragic thing when TIME prints such a vile set of non sequiturs as Poet Viereck has spewed forth...