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Editor Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, new president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and member of the U.S. delegation to Geneva, disagreed. Said Canham: "The conference has done no harm and has substantially advanced the cause of freedom of information...
...President Hugh Baillie: President Thomas Beck, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Editor Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor; Publisher Norman Chandler, Los Angeles Times; President John D. Ewing, Times Publishing Co., Ltd., Shreveport, La.; Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas...
...Including Sevellon Brown, Providence Journal publisher; Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor editor; Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr., and John Carter Vincent, U.S. Minister to Switzerland...
...editors chuckled at this smooth doubletalk. Cracked Chairman Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Newspapermen the world over are very much alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
...speaking, Editor Canham was following the precept of the Monitor's late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that the editor should give the public what it wants. . . . There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will...