Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts:
"Fascinations, brilliance, high-life systems and customs, bewildering scenery and surroundings, being paired with or alone with strangers at glowing public functions with unlimited flow of every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking...