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With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...
Kenneth Fairman, director of athletics at Princeton, laid the blame for the popular misunderstanding of the book's charge squarely on the Associated Press. He called the AP dispatch "middle of the week space filler...
...certainly hope that the Student Council will move with dispatch to rescind this absurd action which it has attempted to justify with some of the most amazingly unintelligent, illogical, and ingeniously inconsistent reasoning I have ever read. Hoger Allan Moore...
With a furious beating of pressagents.' drums (including the mailing of a million letters and the dispatch to radio executives of 3,000 vials of water from Florida's Fountain of Youth), NBC last week dropped a $5,000,000 blockbuster in the form of 28 new or revamped radio shows. The man tossing the bomb (target: public apathy about radio) is NBC's go-getting Vice President Ted Cott, 36, who arrived at the "Magic 28" after three weeks of all-out cerebration with his NBC associates...
...convenes for the fall term, it will be without a Chief Justice." In Washington, where secret meetings with newsmen seldom stay secret long, every reporter soon knew that Brownell had leaked the story. Next day, after Ike had confirmed the news at his press conference, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Raymond Brandt, longtime specialist in Supreme Court affairs, got to his feet. "Pete" Brandt had been refused an interview with Brownell a few days earlier. Pointing his pencil menacingly at Ike, Brandt asked: "Is it going to be the policy of this Administration to leak such important...