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Amid the gale of oratory on free speech and freedom of the press, that followed, Stearns conceived the idea of starting a new paper, under an anonymous but non-Collegian editorship, to serve as the Advocate of the people. His literary aides in the infant enterprise were Charles S. Gage '67, genial versifier and the most popular man in his class, and William G. Peckham '67, a precocious lad who had entered the College at the age of fourteen...
...will be open house at 14 Plympton Street for the last time this year, tomorrow night, when the CRIMSON opens, at one stroke, its brimming casks of beer and the spring competition for editorship on Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily...
...publisher Michael Straight introduces to the readers of the country's chief liberal periodical a new New Republic, altered in size, content and staff. After much publicity and public comment, ranging from the hallelujahs of the left to the derisive criticisms of the right, Henry Wallace took over the editorship of the weekly magazine last week "to help organize a progressive America...
Henry Wallace and his angels had challenged the forces of darkness to battle (TIME, Nov. 25), and now he was ready to unlimber his new weapon. This week the first issue of the New Republic under his editorship hit the stands, looking only mildly destructive. The barrel was shinier (a cover in color), but the bore was the same; the ammunition more plentiful (64 pages instead of 32), but generally of the old caliber. One cheering note for the money-losing New Republic: the issue was abnormally ad-packed...
...tycoon, Frank Munsey, buyer and killer of newspapers, hired him for the New York Sun, assigned him to "go out and find out what is the matter with America." Then, in 1923, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson "bought me a very fancy lunch at the Ritz," offered him the managing editorship of a magazine to be called Liberty. Davenport said he didn't know anything about editing, Patterson said: "That's fine; then you've nothing to unlearn. Go right to work." Two years later, after being told that "no one would be annoyed if you found another...