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...South demonstrated last week that its hooligans were politically impartial. Three days after Henry Wallace had withdrawn northward in a shower of garbage, Republicans staged a rally in industrial Kingsport, a G.O.P. stronghold in mountainous eastern Tennessee. Fourteen thousand people crowded into a parking lot and overflowed into the street. They were there to hear ex-National Chairman Carroll Reece, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Fiddler Roy Acuff, nominee for governor...
...idea. Smartly made up (Gitt regularly wins typographical awards for his own paper), it gave six columns to Henry Wallace's politicking, and brushed off the Battle of Berlin as something "fought mainly by the newspapers whose reports scared the daylights out of some Americans." (Gitt has since withdrawn as a sponsor.) It looked as if the Guardian's complexion would be somewhere between pink and rosy...
...protest was hardly necessary. The White House was aware of the report's explosive political contents. It had temporarily withdrawn the report after issuing it a fortnight ago. Last week Defense Secretary Forrestal dryly pointed out that the report was not "a pattern for legislative action . . . and does not, at this stage, constitute military establishment policy...
Howard Hall is the most closely guarded building in St. Elizabeth's (mental) Hospital, Washington. All its 175 patients are criminally insane. Many are paranoid: hostile, suspicious, frightened, withdrawn into their own delusions. Last spring one inmate suggested starting a newspaper. The doctors approved, and the Howard Hall Journal was launched. Last week, as the fifth issue of the Mimeographed monthly (grown from ten pages to 20) went to press, St. Elizabeth's called it therapeutic journalism...
...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...