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...Journal (circ. 46,023) and its sister the Evening Bulletin (142,658) have won a reputation as the "journalistic conscience of New England." But they do more than bring wrongdoers to the bar. By giving their readers a blend of New York Times-like coverage, combined with the reflective aura of Boston's Atlantic Monthly and the hominess of the Martha's Vineyard Gazette, they have become the best and most respected New England dailies...
...Dubious Service. The aura of invincibility that now surrounds McCarthy owes something to Senator McCarthy himself, not a man to discourage reports of his own prowess. But the McCarthy myth was not created by parthenogenesis. It was busily fertilized not only by McCarthy, but by one notable group of McCarthy's enemies: the apologists for the New and Fair Deals...
...line came to be accepted far outside the originating circle of McCarthy's Fair Deal enemies. Later, liberal commentators expanded this to say that McCarthy eliminated six other Senators who opposed him. A man who can defeat seven U.S. Senators is a power, and thus McCarthy's aura of invincibility began. By the end of 1951, the myth of McCarthy's power had reached the point where even journalists with no ax to grind had to cover McCarthy closely and seriously...
...idea is neither new nor stale. Oxford's Union is a hallowed, tail-and-cutaway institution including the one aura of heckling. Yale's Political Union and Princeton's Whig-Cliosophic Society have flourished for years, each have over 300 members. Attracted by their success, Columbia has recently taken up the idea...
...seat than a board member snappishly ordered her to leave the room. "After that," says Mrs. Jacqueline Leonhard, 35, "I found myself cooling my heels outside whenever I was sent to cover a meeting. And I observed that other citizens were treated rudely and that there was an aura of intimidation about the whole school system." Reporter Leonhard was not the sort to stay intimidated. Her dander up, she decided to run for the school board herself. In 1948 she was elected...