Dear Editor
Dear Editor Simon Enclosed is my order for a year's subscription to The New Leader. I sometimes fear that John Simon will give up in despair (witness, for example, the Erich Segal encounter on...
...Collatos, who appears well versed with McCormack's whereabouts, to check further, he would find that he still maintains the same office and telephone number on the 14th floor of the Federal Building in Boston that he did when he was the Speaker...
...the former chief economist for the Kefauver antitrust committee and author of a forthcoming book is John Blair...
...More Culture As an active newspaperman for nearly 40 years in New York, Washington and now St...
...would like, they also might stand a far better chance of meeting the peculiar needs of the developing nations south of the border...
...When objections were raised from the House floor, McCormack abruptly asked that this proviso be struck, leaving him still with $21,885 a year in "clerical assistance...
...Now, in an ironic turnabout--supposedly an application of the Nixon Doctrine--the U. S. signals its displeasure with the Allende government by ordering its aircraft carrier Enterprise away from Chilean shores...
...So let's have less political coverage and more Pearl K. Bell, John Simon, Harris Green and your other regular critics...
...Miami, Fla...
...Rowen, of course, is the Business and Financial Editor of the Washington Post...
...Or, to put it another way, hang in there John...
...This policy of international "benign neglect" will not help the cause of democracy in the Hemisphere either...
...By the fourth paragraph, I knew that Glass was completely in error as to Speaker McCormack because, first, McCormack's colleagues never provided him with an office in the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston, Massachusetts...
...I hope my subscription can be counted as an assurance that his views are truly appreciated--at least by some...
...Less conspicuously, the Administration has been substantially reducing its aid programs throughout Latin America...
...As presented to the House last December, the retirement resolution called for providing the Speaker with a $27,000-a-year administrative assistant...
...George Garrott Keeping Cool James Stanford Bradshaw's admirably well-balanced "Prognosis for Allende" (NL, February 8) is a welcome change from the "another Cuba" scare stories that have proliferated in the North American press since Chile elected a Marxist president...
...went beyond Nixon's essentially negative policy of "keeping cool" and learned to positively encourage the innovation of distinctly indigenous models of government in Latin America...
...Since then, the Speaker's top assistant in the previous Congress, John L. Monahan, has found a place on the staff of House Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller, a vantage point from which, I am reliably informed, he still ministers to the Speaker's needs...
...Yakima, Wash...
...Finally, in reporting that the Speaker was in Boston, I was misled when Mrs...
...Petersburg, Fla...
...Jose Alonzo Vega Correction In Michael Harrington's "Labor's Radical Demands" (NL, February 22), Hobart Rowen was mistakenly identified as "chief economist for the Kennedy antitrust committee" and author of a new study...
...But during the past few years the big newspapers have begun to fulfill more of that function by exposing the steady flow of lies emanating from the White House and Pentagon...
...Although such systems may prove more Left-Socialist than the U.S...
...Malcolm R. McDonald Locating McCormack After reading about Andrew J. Glass' excellent qualifications in the "Between Issues" editorial section of your February 8 issue, I looked forward to reading his article, "Moving Up the Ladder...
...With the exception of attending two funerals, McCormack has not been in South Boston in over two years...
...I cannot pass comment on the rest of Glass' article because I am not aware of what other errors it might contain, but I do know that he ended his essay with another incorrect statement, saying Mrs...
...Charles N. Collatos Andrew J. Glass replies: Were Mr...
...Secondly, they have not provided him with a $27,000-a-year assistant, but a small clerical staff...
...Petersburg, I have been a constant reader of publications like The New Leader that search for the truth beneath the confusion of daily journalism...
...By the time I finished the third paragraph of the story, in which he wrote that Speaker McCormack served for nine undistinguished years, T had the strong feeling that the editor had committed a fraud in his write-up...
...Previous attempts to force these countries--through gunboat diplomacy or slightly less heavy-handed economic pressure--to imitate North American institutions have generally resulted in the most repressive forms of dictatorship...
...The substitution of Kennedy for Kefauver was a devilish typographical error that evaded us in the proofreading...
...Boggs said: "I have just hung up with the Speaker from Boston...
...Hale Boggs was talking on the phone with McCormack in South Boston when, actually, he was in Washington, D.C...
...Needless to say, she was not talking to him in South Boston...
...Lynnfield, Mass...
...Of course, I stand by my view that the Speaker's reign was an undistinguished one...
...I sometimes fear that John Simon will give up in despair (witness, for example, the Erich Segal encounter on the Dick Cavett Show) and disgust...
...It is time, however, that the U.S...
...It is located in the Post Office Building...
Vol. 54 • March 1971 • No. 6
