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...news executives were prompt to disagree with this academic handling of a practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
...runs the show is scholarly, affable, 37-year-old Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham, one of the nation's ablest news men. A Christian Scientist and a Rhodes scholar, he worked for the Monitor over seas and in Washington before promotion to his present job three years...
...Editor Canham writes occasional editorials but mainly keeps a hand on his paper's excellent foreign and U.S. correspondents - men and women like Wash ington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond and War Correspondent Edmund Stevens...
Realistic Finish. Perhaps the toughest part of Spike Canham's job was to get out a newspaper in the face of the Monitor's old religious taboos against mention of such things as death, disease, disaster, crime. To Christian Scientists these are "error." The Monitor often had to perform journalistic acrobatics to print the news. Once, unable to say "dead," a Monitor writer referred to "passed-on mules...
Under Managing Editor Canham's guidance the Monitor's austere crust is softening. The paper ignored Film Actor Errol Flynn's rape trial but did print the verdict briefly. When 489 people died in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, the Monitor refrained from running pictures, or horrifying descriptions of the victims' screams, but did give Page One display to the story and printed all victims' names. And the Monitor today, as it never did in World War I, covers war news straight. Mentioning casualties and cannon in its clean, unruffled prose, it realistically...