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Wire to "Arthur Lawson." Wechsler charged that the closed hearing was "a flagrant attack on free newspapers." The books, he said, "were just a flimsy pretext for a full-fledged investigation of the Post" and members of its staff, and he demanded that the testimony be made public. But McCarthy refused to do so unless Wechsler "completed his testimony," i.e., made a list of the others who were active in the Young Communist League with him. Wechsler agreed to list them, because "I do not propose to let you distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
...Scalping really isn't a worry, except at big games," Lunden said. "With this plan, I think we can insure that any flagrant violations will be caught...
...contemplated by the CUSC, we are far more deeply disturbed by the timidity and apathy prevalent in the student community. This timidity has been well-reflected in the refusal of the Student Council to assume the leadership in uniting student organizations for possible common action in the event of flagrant unfairness by the Jenner Committee. At its Monday meeting the Council overwhelmingly refused even to send a representative to the organizational meeting of the CUSC. The overzealous direction this meeting subsequently took in no way excuses the original inaction. If the Council will not take the lead in the sphere...
...plan never got off paper. Ahf became a weekly chore with lessons applied only to the next week's assignment. Section men in other G.E. courses have plodded through papers noting only the more flagrant deviations in syntax, spelling and style. Ahf instructors have divorced the content of weekly assignments from the students' range of interest and experience...