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Keeping Black out of the paper was not easy. He is a consistent newsmaker, often gets into other papers. Last month, carrying a United Press International dispatch from Raleigh that mentioned Black five times, Independent Publisher James L. Moore made five pinpoint deletions. Fortnight ago, when the other representative from Kannapolis, Dwight Quinn-supply superintendent for Cannon's mills -killed a Black-introduced bill, the Independent story named the executioner but not the victim...
...defiance of any law or of any court." Legally, they may be right: the schools under court order to integrate will not exist. Morally, their position had an odd sound: "Above all, we do not act with hostility toward the Negro people of Prince Edward County." The Richmond Times-Dispatch (circ. 134,360) cheered: "Your firm determination not to have mixed schools in your county is understood and supported throughout Virginia. Do not let yourselves be pushed around. Continue to maintain your reputation for good order, good race relations and good citizenship...
...weeks and months wore by, idled Globe employes took work elsewhere; others struggled along on strike benefits (up to $80 a week). Left without a morning paper, Globe-Democrat readers and advertisers bolted en masse to the Post-Dispatch, which gained better than 60,000 in new circulation during the strike...
...attention to the significant events of the day. The kind of stories that fill U.S. newspapers-including international tensions, local crime and disasters-are almost totally ignored unless they make a party-line point. Pravda's Satyukov stopped the presses only twice this year, once to insert a dispatch from the Russian news agency Tass covering U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's phony "March of the Unemployed" on Washington (TIME, March 2), once to report Konrad Adenauer's decision to yield the West German chancellorship...
Only in one dispatch--reporting the evacuation of Halfway to Heaven, a small village on North Tachen Island--does Joseph Alsop's prose ring true. Elsewhere, even in such perfectly reasonable injunctions as "Great national problems which are not honestly presented to the nation-will either be badly solved; or they will simply be left unsolved until they grow rancid by over-keeping and make a public stink," the Alsopian manner renders Alsopian reason repulsive. The columnists' work is clearly that of dedicated and respectable, if unattractive vision of the truth. But the tone of the pursuers, the positive arrogance...