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...protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation writer, Michael Frome...
...Frome, 54, is a successful lecturer, magazine writer and author (Rand McNally National Park Guide), whose Stream columns have crusaded for preservation of wilderness areas since...
This fall, Editor Jack Samson canceled the column, ostensibly because the magazine wanted a "modification in the editorial approach." Says he: "I've already hired someone else with an even more strident and stronger stand on conservation. I just don't think Mike Frome did a very good job." CBS officials say that they knew nothing of the change until Frome's supporters started to sound off, and that the parent company bore the writer no grudge...
...Frome and some of his partisans insist that Stream's waters are murkier than that. Frome claims that after Samson was made editor in 1972, he was told not to "name names." Frome says that Samson, for example, refused to publish his criticism of John McGuire, chief of the Forest Service. Frome insists: "They want to play it safe and steady...
...effort was a 23? Arabic version of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe, published in Cairo in 1953. The first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books ranging from Ethan Frome to Gone With the Wind, from The Spirit of St. Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan...