Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, most people seem to be fascinated by sociobiology, but at the same time they hate it," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited this story. "They feel diminished by the theory. They'd like to think that most of their behavior is determined by intellect, whereas the sociobiologists are saying that it's a result of evolution...
...friend Tarpley Mott, the 17-year-old son of the editor of the Yazoo Daily Herald, told me he hoped the town does not become a tourist spot now. "That's always been one of the good things about it, not having any tourists at all," he said. "I'm a progressive person. I want change within ourselves, not from other people. Look what happened to Florida." One day in Stubb's as we ate Yazoo River catfish, Tarpley complained: "I can't find any of my friends today. Nobody's where they ought...
With deadlines at hand and the normally clattering wire service tickers standing mute, editors all over the world had visions of gaping holes in their newspapers. In Houston, Post Night Editor Ernie Williams fretted: "I had only three paragraphs on the downing of the helicopter in Korea, and five graphs on the blackout. But how was I going to put giant heads on stories like that?" Fortunately for Williams, the A.P. wire started moving just at deadline, and he was able to flesh out his two top stories. For Cincinnati Post Sports Editor Tom Tuley, the biggest problem...
Last week, however, blasphemy was once again at issue in the oak-paneled Court No. 8 at London's Old Bailey. The defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would...
...devotional poem by a gifted poet," but the jury was not impressed. By a vote of 10 to 2, it convicted both Lemon and Gay News. The judge praised the jury for its "moral courage" and imposed fines of $1,700 on the paper and $850 on the editor...