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Warning that journalists "suffer from being arrogant as hell" about their First Amendment rights, Peter Braestrup, editor of The Wilson Quarterly, noted that journalists "need a lot of public humility. Everybody needs humility, even Harvard...
DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
Anyone who has spent much time in the Boston area must be used to a certain amount of grousing about newspapers. Peter Braestrup, a Nieman Fellow here last year, gave the Boston papers a well-deserved pasting in a Harpers article last fall, and, periodically, gazing at the text of a news conference in the New York Times or at a particularly excruciating four-color picture of Cardinal Cushing on the front page of the Globe, someone will exclaim how bad the Boston press really...
...Peter Braestrup of our Chicago bureau is concerned, the teaching of reading has not changed in a generation. "When I visited the second grade at Lincolnwood School," he wrote, "pupils were reading, just as I did 19 years ago, William Nida's Fleet-foot the Caveboy. And just as I did, too, one small boy stumbled over the word rhinoceros." Peter was one of 51 TIME reporters who spent a good part of the past four weeks filing in and out of classrooms and talking to teachers, students and aroused parents about whether Johnny can or cannot read...
Recently, Contributing Editor Braestrup previewed a French semi-documentary film, Heartbreak Ridge (see CINEMA). It tells the story of another 2nd lieutenant in the same war. Braestrup's review is, to me, one that could have been written only by someone who had been there...