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...requests for clemency from the likes of Billy Graham, Father Charles Dismas Clark (the "hoodlum priest"), state representatives, the former warden of San Quentin prison, the former county sheriff, a host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station added dramatic impetus to the cause, airing a three-hour panel discussion direct from the jail-and featuring Crump himself. By unanimous agreement. 300 Chicago ministers sermoned their flocks on salvation for the convicted killer...
...major culprits: the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, TIME and Newsweek. On television, Rogers named NBC's Huntley and Brinkley, CBS's Charles Collingwood, ABC Commentator Howard K. Smith and even silenced Jack Paar as antagonists of free enterprise. Advertising dollars spent on such people and publications, he warned, do more harm than if business simply "paid all these millions of dollars right into the Communist Party...
...work has won the attention of his professional hero, Bill Mauldin, whom he met through correspondence when Mauldin was on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It's genuine," Mauldin says of Reese's work, "good irony. He's shrugging off prison life, grinning wryly about it. The cartoons aren't polished or professional, but they're strong; they tell the story...
...brightest red and was the best excuse for the Globe's campaign. Says the Globe's public-relations man, George Carson, "It's aimed strictly at radio and television. We want to sell the newspaper industry. We want to help all newspapers, even the Post-Dispatch.'' No one at the Globe minded, though, that the campaign struck a glancing blow at the P-D's radio and television affiliates...
...costliest silks. He had, in fact, a Sybarite's passion for finery, and he let it be known that he was not averse to accepting "official" gifts. At one point, when the Venetian government was pressing for some trade concessions, its ambassador in London suggested that his superiors dispatch to Hampton Court 100 Damascene carpets at once. "To discuss the matter further until the cardinal receives his 100 carpets would be idle," he said...