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...Love or Perish, by Smiley Blanton (Simon & Schuster; 164,000 copies sold so far). Puckish Smiley Blanton, 74, has for 19 years spread psychiatric good cheer belowstairs at the Marble Collegiate Church in the clinic which he founded with Dr. Peale and still heads. More than most psychiatrists, he understands that the meaning of love extends beyond the ability to make it. But his book is a hodge-podge of marital, parental and occupational anecdotes...
Conversation (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Why I Love My Job, discussed by New York City Health Commissioner Leona Baumgartner, Dr. Smiley Blanton, Clifton Fadiman...
July 25, 1938: Puerto Rican Governor Blanton A. Winship target of bullets during revue. Col. Luis Irizarry killed, several Nationalists convicted...
Polecat & Prayer. The office of Blanton's Appeal is sandwiched between the movie theater and the combination city hall and volunteer fire station. When Jack moved into the editor's chair at 21, succeeding his father (who founded the paper), he was aiming high: "Well, sir, I started out to reform the world." In practice, explains Blanton, this meant getting the Democrats back into power in Washington, D.C. Jack was more successful at covering the news of farm, livestock and plain people in Monroe County...
While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...