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...pages of religious books and hymnals in Braille each year for some 8,000 blind readers in the U.S. and in 66 foreign countries. (Sample selections: The Christian Faith for Laymen, Man Does Not Stand Alone, Bible Stories for Children). A new talking-book magazine, begun last year (current circ. 3,000), offers religious news, Bible studies, Sunday-school lessons and stories on specially made records. Special prayer services are printed in Braille editions, so that blind people can share in worship at their churches...
...Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules...
What picture of the U.S. do Britons get from the British press? Last week, splashed across a tabloid page of the Laborite London Daily Mirror, world's largest daily (circ. 4,514,000), was a headline: THE CLIMATE OF FEAR. Below was an article by Mirror Reporter William Connor, just returned from the U.S. A congressional investigation, wrote Connor in a fantastic comparison, "reminds you of the Communist trials, the horrible . . . Slansky affair in Prague, the grisly Mindszenty farce and a dozen other dismal puppet shows on the other side of the Iron Curtain...
When the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 171,500) ran a fact-packed series on sloppy state traffic enforcement, Superior Court Judge Horace E. Nichols took out after the paper. He demanded that the paper print the evidence he submitted to prove that the series was wrong. Constitution Editor Ralph McGill refused. Highhanded Judge Nichols forthwith cited McGill and Managing Editor William Fields for contempt of court, fined them each $200 and sentenced them to 20 days in jail (TIME, May 12). Last week, in what the Constitution called "a historic decision," Georgia's supreme court unanimously overruled Judge Nichols...
...sooner was it started than the advertising squeeze play backfired embarrassingly. Announced the Beaverbrook Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000): Since the film companies were discriminating against two of the chain's papers, the Express would also refuse Hollywood movie ads. The moviemen hurriedly tried, but failed, to get nonmember companies to join the boycott (snorted Sir Alexander Korda: "Disgustingly silly"). Meanwhile the American companies were losing out on valuable advertising, promotion and good will. Even Beaverbrook's competitors rallied to his side. The News Chronicle, denouncing "an attempt at dictatorship," gave "its full support . . . for the whole...