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...proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression let the press know what the public is thinking." Since what the public thinks is news, the press can hardly lose by knowing-and running-more about...
Reflecting the turbulence, the paper has had four managing editors in less than three years. The current M.E. is Robert Burdock, 45. His predecessor, Wilson Hirschfeld, was fired after a stream of complaints from reporters that he was killing or slanting stories to protect friends in the city administration. Hirschfeld, a Christian Scientist, also tried to reduce the paper's medical coverage. Fraser Kent, a respected medical reporter, quit in disgust, for this and other reasons. There was also bitterness over management's appeal for police assistance when Newspaper Guild members picketed the paper during a strike last...
...illusions about what he is up to: "Sex plus whiff of illegality . . . dirty ole man luring child into disused plate-layer's hut and plying her with wine-gums and dandelion-and-burdock to induce her to remove knickers and slake his vile lusts." Wife Kitty always knows when Sir Roy is off and rutting because each new affair is signaled by his stockpiling new undershorts...
...claimed to be enemies of the Union and hence of law and order." They disappeared into the hills and lived by rustling, moonshining and looting. But the vast majority of Confederate veterans went to work in the rubble of their ruined homes, on exhausted acres choked with nettles and burdock. The struggle was common to officers and men alike: "General Pendleton plowed his Lexington farm in clothes so ragged that passers-by took him for a hired hand. General Elliott peddled fish and oysters"-a forerunner of the host of apple-sellers of post-World War I. After Reconstruction, individual...
...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...