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Like the newspaper he edits, solid, affable Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor seldom raises his voice. When he does, he gets a hearing. Last week Editor Canham left his desk in Boston to speak to a meeting of newspaper admen in Chicago. At the end of his speech came a stinger...
Added Editor Canham, whose Monitor never stoops to peep: "Newspapers . . . assume, correctly, that the public likes to read this sort of thing. But is that the final criterion? Or is it even a correct long-range analysis of the profit motive? Will not this continual nursing of demagogic power in the hands of a few keyhole columnists react against newspapers in the long...
...journalistic meteor was Kenneth Langley, 16, an auburn-haired, apple-cheeked high-school student. He sold Erwin Canham, the Monitor's shrewd and scholarly editor on a kid's eye report on UN CIO. His column has appeared in the Monitor under such headings as: "Boy Reporter Offers Proof China Will Be Strong Nation." Kenneth got off to a slow start. Racing back & forth between his classes and the Opera House a block away, he filed 500 words of stiff schoolboy prose to Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover...
...Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Christ- ian Science Monitor, will address a special session from 1 to 2 o'clock on Saturday. From 2 o'clock until 4, Karl Deutsch, George DeSantillana, Casper Horikoshi, speaking on Germany, Italy, and Japan respectively will join Professor Fay in discussing the topic, "It the Re-education of Axis Power Possible Through an International office of Education to Preserve Peace?" Paul E. Johnston, professor of Psychology at Boston University, will be the moderator at this forum...
Said the Boston-published Christian Science Monitor's able, scholarly managing editor, Erwin D. Canham: "The Monitor has been investigating anti-Jewish violence in Boston for many months. We [did not] print a comprehensive story [because] many responsible leaders in the Jewish community were grievously disturbed at the prospect of publicity, fearing it would do more harm than good...