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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors applauded loud and long at Castro's ringing defense of a free press, "the first enemy of dictatorship." Back in Cuba, a war crimes court sentenced former Pueblo Columnist Fernando Miranda to ten years' hard labor in the Zapata swamps for calling the Castro rebels "thieves and bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Other Face | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...fear, with much success-how our party system differed from the American." After some coaching by his editors, Buchwald grudgingly apologized: "I am sorry that anything I have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring press colleagues, he insisted: "I stand by my interview." And on the basis of that insistence, the Herald Tribune made tentative plans to run the offending column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sag in the Art | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Thieriot and Newhall still lacked just the man to turn the liberal Republican Chronicle into a breakfast treat instead of a treatment: curly-haired, puckish San Franciscophile Herb Caen (pronounced Cane), 43, the columnist who defected to Hearst's morning Examiner in 1950 for a doubled salary of $30,000. In 1957, Prodigal Son Caen decided to return (for $38,000 a year), leaving the Examiner (circ. 257,251) with little humor to perk up its somber pages. "The day I knew we had come around the corner," says Publisher Thieriot, "is the day Herb Caen decided to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Earthquake | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...complain only when they are ignored in his column. And the few who do mind Correspondent Tatsey's frank exposures get nowhere with Weasel Necklace, who doubles as a policeman on the 1,252,000-acre reservation. "I just tell them what's what," says Columnist-Cop Tatsey. "And that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Word from Weasel Necklace | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Died. André Siegfried, 83, French intellectual, authority on English-speaking peoples (America Comes of Age), columnist for Le Figaro, professor at Paris' Institute of Political Science, member of the sanctified French Academy; in Paris. In America, wrote Siegfried, "equality reigns because men do not serve other men but serve a principle-production. They do not serve an individual master, they serve the community. It is quite accurate to call America the New World; for it is really a new world-another world." Of the race in general he once said: "Enough people take the right train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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