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Since I do not know Fidel Castro and have never had any sort of contacts with him or communications from him, I would very much appreciate a retraction of the statement in the October 3 issue of TIME to the effect that "LeftWing Poet Langston Hughes dropped in" at the Theresa to pay respects. I have not been in the Hotel Theresa for several weeks, and was certainly not there during Mr. Castro's stay...
...survived a 1,700-mile space trip in May 1959, but they went farther.*Though they apparently took the trip without noticeable ill effects, scientists plan to study them carefully. Sally and Amy will be mated with Moe, and all three will be mated with other mice. This sort of thing may strike Sally, Amy and Moe as rather tame after all they have been through, but the genetic lessons learned from radiation effects will be valuable for human space travelers...
...total obscurity. Some may recall that Gorey designs covers for Anchor Books, but his actual magnificence is only to be found in such master-works as the Object Lesson, the Doubtful Guest, and the incomparable Listing Attic, which is now out of print. Anyone who aspires to any sort of real gentility needs must purchase First Person, if only for the Gorey pictures, as two-fifths of the world's Gorey-lovers (a roommate and a particularly jolly friend) have already done...
...well on paper. "That's an interesting question," he has Nixon saying to a reporter on one of the television debates, "Pat and I were discussing that very question the other night--after we had put the kids to bed--after the oath of allegiance--it was a usual sort of evening--Pat was sewing a flag--I was reading the Constitution . . ." He has little patience with the President. "Kennedy and the Democrats aren't attacking Eisenhower this year," he says, "I guess that's been pretty much left to me. . . . Vote NO for President this November. Then the White...
...cute but deceptive, for he's careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai Stevenson. And it need hardly be remarked be that views of this sort have not been conspicuously absent from the recent political scene...