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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17. 1952 (Tuesday)
Minor revisions in the price
structure of dairy products is
becoming effective In Medford
this week as a result of recent
notions by the state milk
board.
The annual Christmas Mus
Icale of the Medford city
schools will be held at the
high school tonight.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17. 1942 (Wednesday)
George Harrington named
athletic coach at Medford Jun
ior High school, replacing
Norm Worthley who has been
Inducted into U. S. navy.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
price of bowling has been
'frozen' as of last March. Cou
pled with the debacle of his
North Afrikan Korps, this
should give A. Hitler pause.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17, 1932 (Friday)
Plans for proposed $2,000,
000 Pacific highway rerouting
in Siskiyou dropped because
of slate's financial condition;
widening of Talent -Ashland
section of highway proposed
as a substitute plan.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17, 1922 (Salurday)
Stage drivers report frozen
snow assures smooth surface
on roud between Klamath
Falls and Ashland.
From the Local and Per
sonal column: Roland Beach,
the well known post office
clerk, who has been ill recent
ly, is improving and will be
ablo to return to work soon.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17, 1912 (Monday)
Medford leads cities of stale
outside of Portland in sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals.
Isis theater In Medford
schedules "monster two-reel
animal picture" entitled "The
Lion Turner's Revenge," and
vaudeville acts including The
Royal Midgets and Tom
Thumb, Hermit Crab, at "no
advance in prices"
Whafs Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten cormct it superior;
saven or eight it excellent; five e(
tii It good.
1. "I believe In the United
States of America as a gov
ernment of I lie people, by the
people ..." is the first phase
of what?
2. A person who makes a
business of influencing or
urging Congressmen to pass
legislation is called what?
3. The redisricting of a
stale or territory in order to
obtain better election results
is called ?
4., What is the supreme law
of the U. S ?
5. With what part of the
Constitution do you relate the
ti'rms assembly, searches,
double jeopardy and self-incrimination?
8. I'onertleut, Georgia and
Massachusetts ratified the
Hill of Rights In 1783. 18.10,
or 1IIH7?
7. The U. S. determination
to discourage European coun
tries from extending their sys
tems to the Western Hemis
phere is embodied In what?
8. When is Pan American
day?
9. For what does the 18th
Amendment provide?
10. May the U. S. Supreme
Court overrule a previous de
cision. Answertt 1. American's
Creed. 2. Lobbvlit. 3. Gerry
mandering. 4. U. S. Constitu
tion. S. Bil of Rights. 6. 1937.
7. Monroe Doctrine, 8. April
14. 9. Interna Tax. 10. Yes.
DECEMBER 17, 1962
Where
What came to be called McCarthyism began
in California before McCarthy. An ambitious
vounrr man named Richard M. Nixon discovered
that the anxieties of the cold war could be con
verted into political capital by the skillful manip.
ulation of suspicion and fear. The career thus
began carried him all the way to tne vice rresi
dency and within hailing distance of the White
House.
Last month Mr. Nixon came to the end of the
road in the same election which unseated the
John Birch society s two members of Congress
Did McCarthyism die that day, or at least cease
to be politically profitable, in California?
- The American people should hope so. For
this 16-year nightmare which saw tanaticai anti
Communism elevated to the status of a dogma,
a gainful occupation and a political ritual struck
at the roots of American constitutional liberty.
Not that the American people have any sympa
thy for Communism, which also strikes at the
basis of constitutional liberty. But they should
have no more affections for the radical right than
they do for the radical left.
e e
DOTH radicalisms are entitled to freedom of
expression and of political action so long as
ours remains a free society. But both are funda
mentally hostile to the basis of freedom. They
use free speech for their own ends, and would
abolish it for others if they could. They seek to
advance their views, not through the interplay
of free debate, but by various forms of "direct
action."
The riorht-winff counterpart of the left-wing
strike is the activity of sell-appointed vigilantes
who boycott merchants for selling Yugoslav
goods, or try to take into their own hands the
responsibilities of law enforcement agencies con
cerned with national security. They use the tac
tics of pressure and smear, not to promote but to
stifle the discussion of public issues.
Fanatical anti - Communism of this sort is
really more anti-thought than it is anti-Red. By
fixing their attention on the alleged sponsorship
of ideas rather than on the ideas themselves, ex
tremists persuade themselves that good Ameri
cans must be. tainted with Communism if they
favor any measure which some Communist some
where has favored. This not only leads to such
absurdities as declaring Dwight D. Eisenhower
suspect, but it discourages clear thinking on vital
issues of the times.
IN THE fanatics' lexicon, liberalism equals so-
cialism and socialism equals Communism;
hence all liberals must be tools or dupes or ac
complices of Communism. But if democracy is to
work, all ideals, popular or not, liberal or con
servative, radical or otherwise, are entitled to a
hearing. Tagging certain thoughts as Communist,
and therefore forbidden, is an effort to strait-
iacket the free mind. And who, after all, gave
the self-appointed guardians ot "Americanism
the right to decide what
A calm person who
him will understand that the United States was
never further from revolution than it is today. He
will also understand that in a world of nuclear
weapons, differing societies and political systems
must learn to live together in peace. Yet by in
flating a few legitimate security cases into a net
work of internal peril, by steadily playing on the
fears of the cold war, the radicals of the right
for years have tried to substitute emotion for
reason. As against freedom and peace, they are
the merchants of social anarchy at home and
ideological war abroad.
We hope California voters last month took
step toward cleaning American politics of this
poison. bt. Louis rost -
Rainwalking
December in Oregon
goodness knows. Except
December seems to be a
Some years it is the month when one waits for
skiing season. The gloom, which seemed almost
tolerable a month ago, is getting tiresome. And
we know we'll be even more sick of it before
eaves start reappearing on the trees.
Hut one thing December does offer. It's a
dandv month for rainwalking. In some ways it
isn't as good as November, because in December
there are fewer leaves to kick. Rut leaves can also
be an infernal nuisance to the pure rainwalker,
who is not quite the same breed of cat as the pure
leafkicker.
The rainwalker likes two things: rain and
.walking.
I IKE the skier, he has his costume sturdy
" shoes, pants that are not pressed, a raincoat
and, if he weal's spectacles and no hair, a hat with
a brim. The pure rainwalker eschews such trap
pings as galoshes. And he wouldn't be caught
dead with an umbrella. "Umbrellas," he says,
"are for people who don't like rain."
The harder it rains, the better he likes it as
he roams the city, inspecting catch basins, watch
ing street lights' appear out of the water, splash-
!.. - - I ...
Illg a IIIIIC, WOIlUt'llllg Wily MUUf uugM liw iuii;nrnce by sentencing
and some don t, and h
"not having sense enou,
rain.
Sayings like that one, easy sayings, irritate
him, for he is a philosopher. He reacts, too, when
somebody says, "Wet feet cause colds." Non
sense," he replies, "germs cause colds."
Rut he has a saying of his own: "Rain," he
says, "rain is for walking in." Eugene Register
It Began
is American I
looks rationally about
uispatcn.
doesn't offer much,
for the lift of Christmas,
sentence to be serveti.
.1 III.- . I
Kltillg People W'llO speak of !
,, i , ' ,, (i, !
LHigh .to come in out of the
"Since You've Been Going With That Doll,
You're Getting Chicken"
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Paris:
U.S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk urges the North
Atlantic Alliance to TAKE
THE INITIATIVE In the cold
war and demonstrate that
freedom is the wave of the
future.
In a cautiously optimistic
report to the annual NATO
winter ministerial meeting, he
said the outcome of the Cuban
crisis and weaknesses devel
oping in the Communist bloc
offer the West new opportu
nities. He added that the Soviet
Union is bumping into serious
problems - including troubles
INSIDE RUSSIA itself.
WHAT are these troubles?
They were suggested sev
eral weeks ago in a report
from Moscow by American
correspondents. Here are some
of the report's highlights:
1. Soviet workers show no
interest in hard work, ma
chinery is short on farms, and
the nation wants better shoes
on its feet.
2. Good food, good clothes
and good household supplies
simply are not to be had and
without them the worker has
only a limited incentive to
work.
3. Things are better than
two or three years ago - ex
cept, perhaps for food - but
most Russians have learned
one way or another that they
live poorer lives than Western
ers and even the rest of the
Socialist camp, except per
haps China.
WHOSE ire serious problems
- indeed.
It just could be that, look
ing at them and worried by
what he sees. Old Kroosh may
have come to the conclusion
that this is no time to pick
a fight with the vastly more
efficient West.
That could explain his
hasty retreat in Cuba when
we called his bluff.
SO MUCH for the big world
news. Let's take a look now
at some smaller news closer
home.
DOWN in Santa Monica. Mrs.
Peter Lawford, wife of the
actor and sister of President
Kennedy, has complied with
a court order to visit a child
study center and an auto
wrecking yard. The visits
were conditions imposed after
a conviction for driving with
an expired license.
TM1E circumstances?
Well, her driving license
expired last May, and on Sep
tember Iff she had a minor
traffic accident while she was
backing out of her driveway.
for which she was cited by
a traffic policeman, who ask
ed to see her license and dis
covered that It had expired.
Her case came up before
Municipal Judge W. Blair Oib-
bens, of Santa Monica, who
sentenced her to VISIT A
JUNKYARD, in order to see
with her own eyes what can
happen to cars when improp
erly driven, and to visit also
a hospital to study the cases
of children who are injured
by drivers who have been
careless in cases where they
shouldn't have been careless.
He ordered her to write
a report on what she saw
there.
1jVRLY this week. Mrs Law
J ford reported that she had
complied with the judge's or
ders, and Judge Gibbens re
leased her from all further
proceedings.
This judge Gibbens is quite
a character. He has achieved
considerable national promt-
iviuiuim.
traffic
violators to unusual tnks.
Some of them are ordered
,n tt.n,p lMtv 5tr.. .
to visit morgues and hospital
emergency wards.
Still others are required to
sit through traffic crash films
that are anything but mild -but
show what happens when
traffic mistakes are maile. It
just might be that if we h id
more judges like this Judge
Gibbens we would have fewer
traffic accidents.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
-
Washington Report
By William
fci United Feature Syndicate
THE DOUGHS AND OTHERS
Washington-Eighteen years
ago this month a pre-Chnst-
mas season very different
from our pres-
, J Ant n n a lav
upon the oc
casi o n a 1 1 y
bloody snows
along the Bel-
1- g i a n - Ger
man frontier.
In an army
jeep two men
were going
back from the
White
front toward a warm, a light
ed headquarters in Spa, Bel
gium, a little city not far from
a town which was shortly to
become famous in history
under the name Bastogne, in
an action that would be called
the Battle of the Bulge.
I was one of the two men
in the jeep; the other was a
battalion commander from a
great division, the 1st Infan
try, who had had a little too
much combat even for a vet
eran of the peerless, the in
comparable "Big Red 1." He
was being sent rearward, un
officially, to what was called
a "rest billet. As a war cor
respondent I was, on this oc
casion, his companion.
AS WE churned along In the
blasts of the bone-chilling
wind that came down from
the darkening hills we passed
men sinking down for the on
coming night into foxholes
which had been drilled into
the frozen terrain. The tic
that was never long absent
from the major's wasted eyes
blinked at sudden speed. He
turned from the view along
the road and said to me: "God
pity the Doughs (the infantry
men) on a night like this!"
I do not know what hap
pened to the Doughs on that
night, though I can guess how
long a night it was before it
ended in the blizzard of dawn.
But later on a good many of
them - not excluding my
friend, the major - died some
where in that crazy storm of
fire and shell which was cli
maxed at last in the siege ot
Bastogne.
All this is of the past; but
it has a purpose in the present
and future. And most speci
fically it has a purpose in this
column.
rjN'E of the 40-odd bills that
the Defense Department
will propose to the new Con
gress which opens in a few
weeks would grant to the
members of our armed serv
ices their first pay raises
since 1958. The civilian em
ployees of the government
have, of course, done a great
deal better. Their raises seem
to come almost automatically,
as they have come since 1958
- and before.
The plain truth is that our
military men are wretchedly
7K S f
fi "If
"I don't mind the crowds, the lines or going in hock
every year . . what bothers me il, come Christmas
morning, you get all he credltl"
Foreign News: U.S.-British Patch Job
Foreseen; Spy Fever in Moscow Slated
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Patch Job
President Kennedy and
Prime Minister Harold Mac
mi 11 an are
e x p e cted to
patch up, at
least super
ficially, the
rift which has
developed be
tween their
two countries
over reports
that the
United States
ewiotn
plans to scrap its Skybolt mis
sile. The British had counted
on the Skybolt for their own
bomber force, and their first
reaction was sharply anti-
American. The British still
don't know how to replace
the Skybolt to maintain their
independent nuclear deter-
rent, but the government also
is fearful of the results of
S. White
underpaid, and certainly rela
tive to what is handed out so
readily to the civil service
civilians. Some of these fa
vored civilians who work
under military officers, in the
Pentagon and elsewhere, re
ceive far more than the cap
tains, the majors, the colonels
and so on who must direct the
efforts of these supposed sub
ordinates. Moreover, these, the civil
ians, are protected by dozens
of civil service regulations
and built-in privileges. They
may or may not obey orders
always. If they don't it is said
of them that perhaps they
have psychological problems,
domestic difficulties, or some
thing. And it is left at that;
for these are the untouch
ables. 'T'HE military Joes, however,
-1 are touchable, indeed.
They simply obey their or
ders. And for them no 35
hour week, or whatever it is,
is guaranteed in the stone tab
lets of bureaucracy.
In the simplest and most
elementary justice, therefore,
they ought to have this pay
raise. And so should all the
others all over the world -soldiers,
sailors, airmen, ma
rines - who quietly carry
their packs and their loads of
responsibility and for the
most part do their duty, or
their dying, under an old slo
gan which our sophisticates
would do well not to scorn
too much - the slogan: For
God and County.
Is this column a bit of
propaganda? You can bet it
is. But it is a propaganda of
truth, and I only hope that
somewhere and somehow it
may do some small good to
the armed forces of the Unit
ed States. Let Congress pity
the DoiiRhs, the Doughs and
all the others, in a time like
this. They don't have many to
speak for them.
Association Plans
Buyer's Dinner
The Cal-Ore Hereford asso
ciation will hold its annual
buyer's dinner at North's
Chuck Wagon resturant at
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, according
to President Richard Ireland,
Ashland.
Thirty - four ranchers who
purchased range readv bulls
at the annual Cal-Ore Here
ford Association Range Ready
bull sale have been invited.
A discussion will be held on
suggested improvements for
the annual bull sale.
SUPREME COURT MEETS
Washington - HTli The
Supreme Court meets today
to hand down opinions and
orders before adjourning for
the Christmas holidays.
2
N " y--
W4L
Anglo-American dissension on
public opinion. The result is
that the word quietly is being
spread that some solution to
the problem almost certainly
will be found in the Bahamas
talks between Macmillan and
Kennedy this week.
Spy Fever
Moscow observers now ex
pect an outbreak of spy fever
to take over from politics in
the Soviet Union this week.
Communications
Meredith Criticised
To the Editor: With school
scholastic standings of vari
ous nations featured in the
last issue (Dec. 17) of U. S.
News and World Report, it
seems a letter to our U. S.
Attorney General might be of
reader interest as follows:
U. S. Attorney General Rob
ert Kennedy
Dear Sir: Speaking for
many others, also myself, we
have good cause to wonder
why James Meredith is pres
ently enrolled in the Univer
sity of Mississippi at Oxford.
Oct. 11, 1962, there arrived
here in a form letter head
lined: The Committee of 100,
in support of the NAACP
Legal and Defense Fund, Inc.,
asking for contributions to
help James Meredith in the
Hniver sity of Mississippi.
That James Meredith should
be kept there, due to his
"thirst for knowledge."
To my immediate reply,
asking if Mr. Meredith was
thirsting for knowledge, why
he should be taken from the
Stale College at Jackson
where he had six credits
standing between him and
his graduation? To date there
has been no reply.
An answers of sorts d I d
come from the Medford Mail
Tribune, Nov. 15, 1962, head
lined: "Meredith Hints at
Having Trouble With School
Work." Mr. Meredith admit
ted that he was taking a long
week end off to skip algebra
and English, really high
school subjects, starting in
the grades of Russia and Eu
rope. Still more revealing in a
Dec. 2 TV news release as
relayed to me, of a news in
terview at the University of
Mississippi where university
students are required to make
a certain number of visits to
the library per month. The
librarian there is said to have
testified that Mr. Meredith
spends much of his time there
napping. Also, a young wom
an student reportedly said
that Mr. Meredith appears to
pay little attention to lec
tures, that she has never seen
him with pad and pencil that
all there must have and use.
There is more, much more,
how Mr. Meredith played
hookey when subjects came
up he did not like, including
algebra and English in high
school, and which he is now
reportedly doing in the Uni
versity of Mississippi. In view
of all this, we feel justified
for you, Mr. Attorney Gen
eral, to explain why James
Meredith is being kept, by
aid of federal armed might,
in the University of Mississip
pi? Yours for the rights of
white as well as black people.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
More Nature Study
To the Editor: Travel on
land by wheelbarrow, on wa
ter by one-oar sampan, some
times was the only transport
available in China when writ
er first was there. This was
before the Manchu revolution,
with its queue-cutting mobs.
Then commenced a change
that might have meant much
if U.S.A. had treasured Chi
na's traditional friendship.
In those days, we were at
first surprised to find that
buying an orange did not in
clude the peel. That had a
market value for flavoring
those two meals, morning
rice, evening rice.
In U.S.A. American Know
How produces such surpluses
that government subsidizes
some farmers to let land lie
idle. When one recalls that
in contrast one and one-half
billion people (that's billions,
not millions) go nightly to bed
hungry, one grasps how edu
cation in science has benefit
ed our nation.
Do we today, however, in
the excitement of the Space
Age overemphasize Physics
and Chemistry to the neglect
of Biology? Should we not
have more nature study?
C. M Goethe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16. Calif.
Pragmatism
To the Editor:
Here's a 'rule-of thumb'
to
hang by. j
If you really want to live: '
Don't think 'bout what you
have to get.
But what you have to give, i
George Distell
156 Vashti Way
Medford
The Soviets are allowing to
trickle out more details of
their charges that an Anglo
American espionage ring has
been stealing Soviet military
and scientific secrets. Key
prisoner so far is British busi
nessman Greville Wynne
whose wife has been allowed
to come to Moscow to visit
him in a performance remi
niscent of the Barbara and
Francis Gary Powers epic of
1960. On the International po
litical scene the Soviet press
is expected to bring further
into the open Soviet policy
differences with the Red Chi
nese. Khrushchev, however,
still does not appear ready
publicly to admit an open
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann it in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports front
Washington in his absence.) (e) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
QUESTION NOT FOR
THE HISTORIANS
Washington Politicians,
for the most part, like to
leave the embarrassing ques
tions to the history books. It
gets them out of the public
mind or at least under the
rug to suggest that they real
ly can't be answered until
long in the future.
This was President Ken
nedy's graceful way at his
latest press conference of turn
ing aside questions concerning
the accuracy and source of
the leak of National Security
Council secrets which were re
ported some say mislead
ingly in the Charles Bart-lett-Stewart
Alsop article in
the Saturday Evening Post.
This is a perfectly fair tac
tic to which every modern
President, who has had to
meet the press in public, has
resorted at one time or an
other. It is what White House
reporters call dealing with
questions without answering
them.
If Mr. Kennedy deems it
best to close the book on what
some call the "NSC leak" and
others the "Stevenson affair,"
he will, for some time at least,
succeed in doing so. There is
little, if anything, which the
Congress, the public, or the
press can do about it.
The only reason I venture
this postscript to the Presi
dent's press-conference com
ments on the controversial
article is that it seems to me
that Mr. Kennedy neither an
swered nor assigned to the
historians the central ques
tion. rpHE President was, of
-- course, eminently right in
not allowing himself to be
drawn into any discussion
concerning the position which
Ambassador Stevenson or any
other of his advisers took dur
ing the Cuba deliberations.
These confidences have al
ready been breached too
much. He said that any de
scription and appraisal of the
Cuba deliberations should be
left to the historians and call
ed it a "minefield" through
which sometimes they would
tread.
But the central question has
nothing whatsoever to do with
tne divergent views of the and irresponsibly leaked ths
President's advisers on the confidences of tlie NSC.
Cuban crisis. The central I don't see how this matter
question is: who breached the can be safely left to the his
confidence of the NSC andltorians.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
lei Field Enterpriies. Inc.
DEAR SANTA
Dear Santa Claus: T have
been a reasonably good boy
all year, and I have made up
a little list of
F.-TtawH-- 1 some of the
( " things I'd like
j tor Lhrisl
j 4 mas, such as
Vi A form let-
4 In. tni .n..l4
refuse the im
possible re-
J quests
strange
of
er s
without bruis
ing their feelings.
A soft answer that would
turn away the wrath of bellig
erent readers who accost a
columnist as a social gather
ing and want to argue about
a piece he has long since for
gotten. A padded blackjack for the
people who ask quizzically,
"Do you reallv believe the
things you write?"
And an unpadded black
jack for the ones who ask.
"Is that all you do write
that little column every
day?"
An unlimited number of
classified telephone books to
be sent to the Innumerable
telephone callers who want to
know "where I can buy" a
certain book mentioned in the
column as if books were
sold only In opium dens to
persons carrying special cre
dentials from Fu Manchu.
A tactful but affectire
reminder to the chairman
(and. more often, chair
women) of program com
mittees. Informing I h jm
break within the Communist
bloc.
Berlin Bait
A speech by Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko in
dicates the Soviets will push
slowly to get East-West talks
over Berlin going again. They
are expected to dangle two
pieces of bait - an indication
British, French and American
troops might be tolerated In
West Berlin under a United
Nations flag, and an indica
tion the Kremlin would like
to get an East-West agreement
on general outlines of a peaca
treaty the Soviets could sign
with East Germany without
bringing on a major crisis.
is anything going to be dona
about it?
At another point Mr. Ken
nedy said that he did not
think there was much advant
age "to the various press
speculations" concerning Mr.
Stevenson's role or any other
adviser's role in the NSC
since the decision had to ba
and was his own.
True, absolutely true, but
the question that is causing
public anxiety. Congressional
anxiety, and head-shaking in
many quarters in the govern
ment is not ' "press specula
tion" over who said what dur
ing the secret deliberations
in the White House, but who
violated the security of tha
NSC and what should ba
done.
fN THIS point Ambassador
Stevenson, who was a
principal target of the NSC
leak, and President Kennedy
disagree.
Mr. Stevenson has said: "I
think it is troublesome to
think that the privacy of the
President's d e I i b e r a tions
could be breached, and if I
had anybody in my employ,
and could catch him, who did
that, he wouldn't last long."
Mr. Kennedy made it clear
at his press conference that
he did not intend to press his
investigation of who was re
sponsible. Democratic Sen. Clair
Engle of California, a loyal
Kennedy supporter, says that
action by the President to
discover and remove from
government the person or per
sons who leaked NSC discus
sions "would be a great re
lief to many members of Con
gress and to the American
public."
At his press conference,
when asked whether he plan
ned an inquiry into the viola
tion of NSC confidence. Mr.
Kennedyq limited his reply
to what seemed to me an ir
relevancy. He said he was
satisfied that "the statement
or interpretation" of Gover
nor Stevenson's position "did
not come from a member of
the National Security Coun
cil." That's not the issue. That's
incidental. The crucial ques
tion is not who called Adlal
bad name unfair as that
was but who deliberately
J. Harris
that since they don't expect
the butcher to give them 40
pounds of free meat for
their meetings, they
shouldn't expect a lecturer
to give them 40 minutes of
free talk.
A conducted tour through
the city room for those
Credulous souls who persist
in believing the ancient le
gend that newspapermen
invariable wear their hats
indoors, receive hourly
nourishment from gin
flasks, and address all fe
males under the age of 60
as "Toots."
A free course in the' Pal
mer hanowriting method for
those thousands of corres
pondents who send me 12
pages of closely packed and
utterly undecipherable let
ters, and then complain bitter
ly a month later that their
proposal for settling world
disputes (or something)
hasn't been answered.
A magical dictionary of
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will enable me to write every
day with the verbal freshness
of a Conrad, the psycholog
ical profundity of a Dostoycv
sky. the stylistic elegance of
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ive clarity of a Dean Swift.
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satisfy the oldsters and tha
youngsters, the cynics and tha
romanticists, those who want
it lighter and those who want
it heavier, the waitress in
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