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...Pogo began sounding off fortnight ago on a subject of extreme sen sitivity to Kelly's fourscore clients in the South: school integration. "Some places 'round here," observed Pogo to a butter fly pal, "education is perty well finished." This observation was too much for John H. Colburn. managing editor of the Rich mond, Va. Times-Dispatch. He ordered the offending Pogoism routed out of the strip...
Buried beneath this comic-page tempest was a principle: Can an editor ethically edit a comic strip - which is. after all, the bylined personal product of its creator? Yes. said Editor Colburn: "We have a right to edit, we do edit, everything that goes into our newspaper. Comic-strip art ists have no immunity.'' No, said Artist Kelly. "Once my name and copyright are on the strips, I am responsible for what is said in them and how it is said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want...
...these strips. Colburn had a different remedy: he consigned three of the most offensive ones to the wastebasket...
Other officers elected were: Vice-President, the Rev. Herbert R. Smith, minister of the Evangelical Congregational Church, Needham, Mass; Secretary, the Rev. John H. Wilson, retired Unitarian minister from Wilton, N.H.; Treasurer, the Rev. Arthur P. Colburn of the Pawtucket, R.I., Congregational Church; and to the Advisory Council, the Rev. Richard T. Broeg, minister of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Swampscott, Mass...
That was too much for former State Senator J. Wesley Colburn of Nashua, who had withdrawn as chairman of the state's MacArthur-for-President movement at the general's request. To get things straight, he wrote MacArthur a letter: Should the general's admirers support the MacArthur-pledged slate, or someone else? The old soldier penned a note at the bottom of the letter, mailed it back to Colburn. In the note was the long-expected "announcement": "I thank you for your note. Under the circumstances I suggest you support Taft. D. MacA...