For the Record

So vindictively is Princeton behaving in its treatment of Father Hugh Halton that he is not being allowed to use the facilities of the University Library (which are available to practically anyone who seeks them out)…. When Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a Communist convicted under the Smith Act, was barred from speaking in Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin’s “student life and interest committee” immediately, and indignantly, invited her to speak from a Wisconsin podium. But University authorities vetoed the invitation.

A December quote for the record: “I feel confirmed in the conviction I have held for more than forty years that by and large the taste of the reading public is better than that of us who cater to it.” Alfred A. Knopf, publisher of In the Court of Public Opinion, by Alger Hiss, principal book flop of 1957. . . . The announcement by CBS and NBC that they will no longer censor the words in those of Stephen Foster’s songs that are official state songs (e.g., “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Swanee River”) does not satisfy the House Commerce Committee, which questions the power of networks to censor songs at all.

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So vindictively is Princeton behaving in its treatment of Father Hugh Halton that he is not being allowed to use the facilities of the University Library (which are available to practically anyone who seeks them out)…. When Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a Communist convicted under the Smith Act, was barred from speaking in Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin’s “student life and interest committee” immediately, and indignantly, invited her to speak from a Wisconsin podium. But University authorities vetoed the invitation.

A December quote for the record: “I feel confirmed in the conviction I have held for more than forty years that by and large the taste of the reading public is better than that of us who cater to it.” Alfred A. Knopf, publisher of In the Court of Public Opinion, by Alger Hiss, principal book flop of 1957. . . . The announcement by CBS and NBC that they will no longer censor the words in those of Stephen Foster’s songs that are official state songs (e.g., “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Swanee River”) does not satisfy the House Commerce Committee, which questions the power of networks to censor songs at all.