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...beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their smartest move yet; Rustin is the master organizer who turned the 1963 March on Washington into a nonpareil of nonviolence...
Professionally compelled to get the facts, reporters have long resorted to deception. As far back as 1886, a brash young journalist who called herself Nel lie Bly feigned insanity to expose the inhuman conditions in a mental hospital. And in 1919, Herbert Bayard Swope passed himself off as a diplomat, outfitted with cutaway coat and chauffeured limousine, to provide a firsthand account of peace-treaty negotiations at Versailles. Last week, as the result of a National Labor Relations Board decision, the concept of what journalists call "enterprising reporting" was subjected to Government review...
Support for Frontlash has come from the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education. Michael Harrington, Bayard Rustin and Gus Tyler are members of its National Advisory Board...
...which may partially explain the extraordinary availability of important guests, who seem as eager as Greenwood to show their faces on TV. Last week's was Urban League Director Whitney Young; before that the program offered Bayard Rustin, Senators Charles Percy and Wayne Morse, Billy Graham and Walter Heller. Next week Greenwood has filming sessions scheduled with Bobby Kennedy, Jack Benny and Conrad Hilton. For next month, when Greenwood goes to Europe, he has talks arranged with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and, pending approval of the questions, Charles de Gaulle...
Died. Margaret P. Swope, 77, widow of onetime New York World Editor Herbert Bayard Swope and quick-witted hostess to the wittiest writers, sportsmen and politicians of her time; after a long illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...