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Hasn't your "research department" advised you that "Communist" Louis Budenz was formerly director of the Catholic Central Verein of St. Louis ... or did you so easily swallow the fairy tale of his swift promotion from Communist editor to Catholic professor?
ELLIOTT FANSLER
Baltimore
¶TIME was well aware (and so stated) that Budenz was a Catholic in his pre-Communist days. He was associate director (never director) of the St. Louis Catholic Central Verein.—ED.
He Got Fired
Sirs:
TIME states [May 13] that I am the Daily Express columnist "William Hickey." I was fired from this job in July 1943, partly perhaps for being (as TIME puts it) too "cocky" to the great and smug; since then I have written regularly only in the more congenial context of Reynolds News, and there have been six or seven Hickeys.
TOM DRIBERG, M.P.
London
¶ TIME erred; there have been six " William Hickeys" on the Express since Reader Driberg. The latest: MacDonald Daly.—ED.