Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor and president of the fortnightly Freeman, John Chamberlain, 49, was prepared from the start for people "either to love or hate us." But he never expected the two groups to form right on the magazine's own staff and fight it out in the Freeman's offices on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, as they were doing last week. Before the war broke out, the Freeman had reached a measure of success in its determination to be the best-known "right-wing magazine of opinion" in the U.S. In two years its circulation had climbed from...
Sacred Character. The trouble really started after Freeman Editor Henry Hazlitt brought Forrest Davis, ex-Saturday Evening Post Washington editor, to the magazine. Instead of being Hazlitt's man, Davis had ideas of his own on how to run the magazine, and Chamberlain and Managing Editor Suzanne La Follette generally agreed. In short order Hazlitt had a falling-out with them. Among other things he also objected to putting out the "kind of magazine in which McCarthy is a sacred character." In October Hazlitt, Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though...
...Eisenhower, and wanted the magazine to stay neutral until after the convention. In another disagreement, when the editors planned a fund-raising dinner, lined up $60,000 in advance and invited Taft to speak, the board vetoed the plan because of "all the dissension." Through the presidential campaign, the Freeman's readers waited for an all-out editorial endorsement of Ike Eisenhower, but it never came...
Strong Emotions. To the Freeman's editors, the stockholders' insistent demands for a change in the editorial tone of the Freeman smacked strongly of "interfering with freedom of the press." The directors replied that since their money was behind the magazine, they had some rights in deciding what kind of magazine it should be. Said Editor Davis: "The Freeman is a militant magazine appealing to strong emotion . . . The directors want to make it a quiet, semi-academic review of economics...
Editorial Writer Jack Kilpatrick of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader also began an investigation. Kilpatrick, a hard-dig ging reporter (who has since succeeded Historian Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the News Leader - TIME, July 1 6, 1951), first got interested in the case as a reporter when Rogers made an un successful appeal to a higher court. Con vinced of his innocence, Kilpatrick ran a two-column editorial called "The Curious Case of Silas Rogers." Wrote he: "The conviction grows, and grows [that] Silas Rogers is imprisoned for life - for a crime he never committed." "Kilpo" Kilpatrick quizzed...