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...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
...page that many papers rarely get either brickbats or backpats. Editorial writers, feeling a little obsolete, often wonder out loud why they don't have as many readers as the comics and the sport pages. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, the man who bosses the Courant's editorial page threw them some answers...
...medicos formed a "Committee of 100" to sponsor a mild bill which would permit a doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...
After a long struggle, I have gotten most of our New England journals to realize that the classic remark, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it" (TIME, March 20) was not Mark Twain's. . . . Charles Dudley Warner, Associate Editor of the Hartford Courant, was the man. Mark Twain did say (or write), "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes...
...After a long struggle, TIME confesses that Reader Cooke is probably correct. But neither the New York Public Library, nor H. L. Mencken, nor the Hartford Courant can produce the editorial in which Editor Warner allegedly made the quip...