Word: bre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Detroit's two other papers ran similar stories, their concerted defiance promptly blew up into a national journalistic cause célèbre. Never before had the loftily independent News, John S. Knight's crusading Free Press (circ. 498,912), and Hearst's scrappy but third-ranking Times (circ. 385,908) shown such editorial solidarity. Encouragement flowed in from all over, even from the bench: "The court's business is the public business," said Federal District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, who, convalescing in a Detroit hospital, had taken no part in the suppression order...