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Atmosphere of Dissent. At 55, the once-flaming Trumbo appears quiet, gentle and humorous. But peering through black-rimmed glasses and speaking through a thickly tufted white mustache, he rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church...
James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...
...list of welcome changes does not end here. Attorney-General Wyman has rejected another term after his present one ends on Friday. For the last seven years he has used the power of his office and of public opinion to persecute dissent in a manner not only contemptuous of civil liberties but also amusingly destructive of New Hampshire's favorite shibboleth: meddlesome government is evil. That adage seems a ludicrous antique...
...Louisiana law requiring the N.A.A.C.P. to reveal its membership lists. Last year, serving on a special three-judge federal court, Wisdom defended the legality of the Civil Rights Commission's investigative procedures, although the other two judges voted against him. The Supreme Court later upheld Wisdom's dissent...
Basil Kingsley Martin has been stirring such steam-heated passion since he became the Statesman's editor in 1931. He made it Britain's leading organ of dissent, with a circulation of 80,038-nearly twice that of its competitor, the Spectator (42,453). Now, after an uncharacteristically mild valedictory ("Thirty years at an office desk seems long enough"), Kingsley Martin, 63, is taking a new title-editorial director-and a new assignment as the Statesman's roving foreign correspondent. His chosen successor as editor: Assistant Editor John Freeman...