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...stars has been James A. Wechsler, 36-year-old editor of the Fair Dealing New York Post. But last week when the weekly program was telecast, Editor Wechsler was missing. He had been tossed off the panel of editors, presided over by Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, by the Grand Union grocery chain, the sponsor. The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure...
Other panel members joined in. Edward P. Doyle, news editor of the Journal-American, which had touched off the row, said that he agreed entirely with Alicia Patterson. Editor Canham later pointed out that he had "argued every day for a week" to prevent Wechsler from being kicked off. But Canham did not feel strongly enough to resign as moderator, since he thinks that "the case is not as clear-cut as it might be, and I'm not sure the sponsor does not have some rights." To most newsmen, however, it was clear-cut: a clear-cut example...
...conference, the U.S. delegation, including Harvard Professor Zechariah Chaffee, Sevellon Brown, publisher of the Providence Journal & Bulletin, and the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, won enough supporters to get their "Newsgathering Convention" tentatively approved. But to do so, they had to bargain. Among the 55 countries attending, many wanted a clause giving a nation the right to demand corrections of erroneous stories. Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether...
...Richard Taverne, won a unanimous decision from Steven R. Petschek '53 and Jay R. Nussbaum '52, before a crowd of 300 in Paine Music Hall. The judges were L. C. S. Barber, British Consul in Boston, Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe and professor of History, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor...
...chief attraction of debating activities next week will be the Thursday contest with Oxford on, "Has the Sun Set on the British Commonwealth." Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor will serve as judges...