The Week

■ Our friend and collaborator John Lofton sends us a clipping from the Washington Post which reports that two American prisoners of war in North Vietnam “spoke of the loudspeakers in their cells. [Roger] Ingvalson said it broadcast readings in English from historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.” and others. Comments Lofton: “I think that as a captured pilot I could take most anything the North Vietnamese might dish out in the way of torture. But having recordings of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. piped into my cell . . . God! I’ll talk! I’ll talk!”

■ “Lindsay, despite the shirtsleeve charm and the radiant intentions, has been incompetent and naive, devoted to public relations as a substitute for tangibilities. . . . Lindsay disappointed and angered the poor and the middle class, -blacks and Jews, the Left and the Right, landlords and tenants, consumers and dispensers—mainly by making voluminous promises to all of them and then failing to carry them through. (When he runs on the Liberal ticket, it’s hard to guess where he might acquire new support, after the numbers he’s already lost.) Still, his conscience must be respected; his urgency in proclaiming the perils to U.S. cities has the ring of total concern. He belongs in some urban chair in Washington where he can talk about the problems of the cities without actually being required to run one.” Don’t blame us if you think this defames Our John. We’re quoting from Badillo-supporter Nora Sayre’s piece on the New York primary election published in Britain’s left-wing New Statesman.

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■ Our friend and collaborator John Lofton sends us a clipping from the Washington Post which reports that two American prisoners of war in North Vietnam “spoke of the loudspeakers in their cells. [Roger] Ingvalson said it broadcast readings in English from historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.” and others. Comments Lofton: “I think that as a captured pilot I could take most anything the North Vietnamese might dish out in the way of torture. But having recordings of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. piped into my cell . . . God! I’ll talk! I’ll talk!”

■ “Lindsay, despite the shirtsleeve charm and the radiant intentions, has been incompetent and naive, devoted to public relations as a substitute for tangibilities. . . . Lindsay disappointed and angered the poor and the middle class, -blacks and Jews, the Left and the Right, landlords and tenants, consumers and dispensers—mainly by making voluminous promises to all of them and then failing to carry them through. (When he runs on the Liberal ticket, it’s hard to guess where he might acquire new support, after the numbers he’s already lost.) Still, his conscience must be respected; his urgency in proclaiming the perils to U.S. cities has the ring of total concern. He belongs in some urban chair in Washington where he can talk about the problems of the cities without actually being required to run one.” Don’t blame us if you think this defames Our John. We’re quoting from Badillo-supporter Nora Sayre’s piece on the New York primary election published in Britain’s left-wing New Statesman.