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Backed by the nervous Foreign Office, Lord Simonds told Lord Russell that his book was opinionated, and its photographs unsettling. If he persisted in publishing it, he would be fired from his ?2,200-a-year ($6,160) government job. Angrily, Lord Russell decided to go ahead, "whatever the cost to my career," and the air was rent with cries of government censorship. Promptly Beaverbrook's Daily Express proclaimed last week that it would publish daily extracts from "the Book They Tried...
Early this year, Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called upon Judaism to rescind its excommunication of Spinoza and proposed that, as a kind of atonement, the Hebrew University publish the philosopher's complete works two years hence on the 300th anniversary of the famous curse...
Then the Giants called up Willie Mays, who was hitting a fancy .477 for the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, the Giants' No. 1 farm team. Willie had already made himself so popular in Minneapolis that the Giants' President Stoneham felt obliged to publish ads in the local Minneapolis newspapers to apologize for taking the young man away. But in his first days as a Giant, 20-year-old Willie was a flop. The rookie got only one lonesome hit in his first 26 times...
...Hong Kong at least a dozen private schools have been displaying the Communist flag on holidays, and one night school has been shut down as a Communist propaganda center. In Thailand students at the University of Moral and Political Sciences in Bangkok still publish a thinly disguised party-line paper, and one observer told Eells that "probably the majority of Chinese schools in Thailand are pro-Communist...
With his wife, Hoettl founded a publishing house just to publish The Secret Front. The book flopped in Germany and the publishing business with it. It has been published in the U.S. on the apparent assumption that even if Nazi Hoettl's countrymen would not read his story, his ex-enemies will...