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Eisenhower and Kennedy might reply as Henry Ward Beecher once did to an English student...
After listening to one of Dr. Beecher's great sermons, the young critic told the minister at the church door that he had counted 24 grammatical errors in his talk...
...then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed this Civil War Centennial treat for Post readers, Editor James Wechsler was ecstatic. "Why," said Wechsler, "Uncle Tom emerges as a prototype of Martin Luther King...
...first. A tough and fearless little man who loves his country and its people, black and white (he is the leader of the Liberal Party in South Africa), Paton does not rank as a major writer. But for his purposes, he may be something even better: a male Harriet Beecher Stowe who avoids both the mawkishness and the melodrama of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...BEECHER BLAKE...