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...committee reckoned without Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones, executive editor of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, onetime head of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a debater at the lawyers' convention. Jones interpreted the proposal as "an out and out press gag." Said he: "If this had come up 15 years ago, I would guess the author to be Goebbels. [For every] case where newspapers have [caused a man to be] sent to prison in a miscarriage of justice, [there are] ten where citizens won freedom through the ceaseless efforts of hard-working newspapermen.'' After hearing that...
...Gag Attempt? Even the watered-down New York resolution was too much for some editors, including Casey Jones, to take. Snapped the New York Daily News in an editorial: "[We will] fight this gag attempt in every . . . way [we] can think up." Said the trade paper Editor & Publisher: "It will be the people who eventually will suffer...
...more by what he says than in what he does. Give him a good line and he can throw it away with the electric unconcern of a stripper discarding the semifinal spangle, but it is not much fun when there is nothing in the line worth noticing. Typical Casanova gag line: ''Women are like oranges. When you've squeezed one. you've squeezed them...
...these former methods lack widespread appeal in that they only cheat the Telephone Company of a few nickels. Because a good crook gets more pleasure out of ruining his friends, the "Crossed Wires" gag provides lots of laughs for those who know its secrets. By crossing the wires inside a phone in a special way, one can charge his long distance calls to the other person on the party line...
Playwright Jean Kerr, 30, with her husband Walter, 40, the New York Herald Tribune'?, drama critic, wrote the 1949 revue, Touch and Go. This season she contributed two sprightly sketches to John Murray Anderson's Almanac. A tall brunette with a gift of gag, she has a pretty, animated face and four small boys (aged one to eight) who are animated all over...