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...commands to editorial underlings in Manhattan. Last year the Falmouth teletype flashed to Liberty one of Editor Oursler's decisions : to publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...Trotsky Must Die!" Stalin in 1929 decreed the expulsion of Trotsky from Russia to Turkey, where Trotsky arrived loudly protesting. Declared Volkswille, the official organ of the German Communist Party then: "Trotsky must die, but Stalin does not dare to get rid of him in Russia. . . . Therefore Trotsky is to be taken to Turkey, where it will be easy to murder...
...doesn't much matter whether someone fires an academic administrator every now and then. President Conant was quite right when he made the distinction between ousting a professor and getting rid of a president. It will probably do a lot of college presidents good to realize that they don't hold life terms. The old bug-bear of academic freedom doesn't come in to this...
Peasant-Conservative Batista, who has long been set on getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done nothing worse than veto Batista's sugar-tax bill. Since this bill had been engineered by Batista from the beginning, the charge of "interference" struck many Cubans as ironical, but with the Army behind Batista the politicians promptly impeached and ousted Gomez...
...which doctors recognized as the history of a case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white spot." The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed...