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Classic Comment. But dissenting voices were raised, among them those of Advisory Board Members Kenneth MacDonald, editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, and Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor. "My idea," said Canham, "is whether this is a good biography, not passing judgment on Mr. Hearst himself. Maybe this category ought to be redefined...
Judges for the contest are William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to President Pusey; Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; and Albert Norris '25, master of Milton Academy. The final contestants were selected in an earlier round...
...since the days of the Suez crisis," wrote Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, "has the Western world been more deeply divided than it is now over the Katanga. The situation is in a thorough mess.'' And not for years have the pundits and editorialists of the U.S. press been so deeply disturbed by a cold war maneuver. Last week, as the mess in the Congo showed no signs of abating (see THE WORLD), the U.S. press found little that made sense in the strange and unsettling collision of international armies half the world away...
Fortnight ago, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, took the occasion of Kennedy's impending speaking tour of the West to assess the Administration. Canham found it wanting: "The Democratic critics a year ago called the Eisenhower forces a 'do-nothing administration.' They presented themselves as men of action-apostles of courage . . . Today, both in the United States and in the allied capitals, but even more in the hostile centers of world communism, the impression prevails that the Kennedy administration shrinks from the test when the test comes." Canham's conclusion: "The Kennedy...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, a chronic Kennedy critic, politely applauded his scholarly speech at Chapel Hill (TIME, Oct. 20), then yielded to the same anxiety that troubles Erwin Canham: "Mr. Kennedy's trouble lies in translating high-sounding words and resolute statements into the actions of the administration he heads. It is our well-justified fear that the President is lacking in that quality which enables a man to live up to his own words. For all the firmness, the total body of his decisions as President is not such as to inspire national confidence...