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...symposium, George M. Fredrickson '56, William G. Dakin '57, Luigi R. Einaudi '57, David A. Horgan '56, Terence S. Turner '57, and a sixth student still to be chosen will speak on their own interpretations of academic freedom. Brady said that conservative, liberal, and middle-of-the-road views will receive equal representation...
...office high above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, President Paul Smith of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. last week summoned Roger Dakin, editor for the past three years of the company's most important, and sickest, magazine, Collier's. Smith had bad news for Dakin: he was fired. The same afternoon, Dakin was out of the office and his $25,000-a-year job. But the parting was amiable enough. "Roger just didn't seem to get my message," said President Smith. "If I knew exactly what Paul's message was," answered Dakin, "I guess...
...their importance has vastly increased in recent years as U.S. magazines, which were once mostly fiction, have shifted to about 75% nonfiction. Thus, except for the handful of magazines that are largely staff-written, free-lancers have become indispensable. "The free-lancer," says Collier's Editor Roger Dakin. "is the backbone of the magazine industry." He is also the substance of an American dream...
Amidst the news of its big change, Collier's more quietly attended to a small one. Editor Roger Dakin, who recently fired Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon after Collier's had received unsupported charges that Moon once belonged to Communist-front organizations (TIME, April 27), last week fired Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, 30. Farrell, who had been Moon's boss, had refused to fire Moon himself and had also signed a protest from Collier's entire fiction staff against the discharge. Editor Dakin insisted that Farrell's firing had nothing to do with his argument...
...Collier's fiction staff promptly protested to Dakin in a memo: "We are all distressed that this could happen on a magazine that once had a reputation for independent judgment . . . The magazine has, in bowing so spiritlessly to pressure, publicly 'admitted' its 'guilt' and injured the reputation of a man who has been given no chance to prove his innocence." Said Bucklin Moon: "All I can do is, through a great deal of personal work and some money, try to get myself officially cleared. I'm not trying to be a martyr. But this...