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...last week to the President's regular press conference, granted credentials. He was light-skinned Harry McAlpin of the Atlanta Daily World (circ. 23,000) and the Negro Newspaper Publishers' Association. Previously, President Roosevelt had received 13 Negro newspaper publishers, heard their plea for an end to "second-class citizenship" and their 21-point statement of war and postwar aspirations...
...only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring to Adano. Raised in The Bronx, razzed as a wop in school, a truck driver at 16, a $12-a-week grocery clerk at 20, a second-class clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before going into the Army, Victor Joppolo brings to Adano the unbelievable thought that government should be the servant of the people. There are no subtle shadings in Author Hersey's portraits. Victor is unqualifiedly good...
...years Frank C. Walker's Post Office Department has had a perfect batting average against magazines it cited, or simply scanned, as obscene: 23 cited; 39 put to the purity test; 62 second-class mail (cheaper rate) privileges revoked or denied. Last week sharp-nosed Postmaster General Walker, setting himself up as the No. 1 judge of what the U.S. public should read and of what it should be denied, personally turned thumbs down on Esquire...
...week's end, testimony ended, the Post Office's three-man Board of Judges (Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Walter Myers, First Deputy Assistant Thomas Cargill, Chief Clerk Frank Ellis) retired to draft their recommendation-either that Esquire's second-class (cheaper rate) mailing privileges be revoked, or that the magazine be absolved...
...week's end more witnesses were to come, and the decision was days, possibly weeks away. Because defeat would be expensive (loss of second-class, cheaper-rate mailing rights would cost some $400,000 a year), Esquire was ready to appeal to the Supreme Court if it lost...