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...live coverage on the day the 101st Airborne took over at Central High, TV also scored a kind of integration feat-between the two major networks. For that morning, CBS's alert News Director John Day, an ex-managing editor (Dayton Daily News, Louisville Courier-Journal), had reserved the only circuit that can carry a telecast out of Little Rock. When NBC's News Director Bill McAndrew learned this, he telephoned Day and said hopefully: "This is bigger than both of us." Day agreed, and arranged to share CBS pickups with NBC. The CBS gesture proved...
...American regional studies, who fled to Mexico in 1954 before a scheduled questioning by university authorities. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed...
...Concerning your Aug. 5 story on Airman Donald Wheeler: The armed forces are chicken; they daren't enforce orders. But should they try, get a pressagent to whip up a frenzied campaign to save you from discipline. Carry your case to the public through press, radio, and courier where necessary. You'll win if you whine and weep. My nomination for our next "National Hero": Airman Donald Wheeler...
Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
...wrong to believe in the Constitution of the United States?" asked the editorial in Tennessee's Clinton Courier-News last week. "Is it wrong to try to preserve peace in your community, to try to prevent individuals from being led astray by irresponsible rabble-rousers?" From Editor-Publisher Horace Wells these were not rhetorical questions. His weekly paper's remonstrances against the hooligan-led integration riots in Clinton last year (TIME, Sept. 10) have spurred threats against Wells's family, a dynamiting near his home, attempts to get a boycott going against the paper. But the paper has lost only...