Word: graver
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Senior Political Pundit Walter Lippmann found even graver cause for complaint: "The President makes announcements and the correspondents ask him questions in order to get stories, perhaps even scoops. That is, I believe, a basically false conception of why it is worthwhile to have the President submit himself to questions from the press. The real use of the presidential press conference is to enable the President to explain his policies and, if necessary, to compel him to explain them." In this respect, added Columnist Lippmann, the Kennedy conference format has been a failure: "President Kennedy, with all his political genius...
Return for a Gift. But were the Post-Dispatch stories relevant as news? By the paper's own accounting, Frank Prince had stayed in the clear for the last 35 years. The manner in which the stories came about added even graver doubts as to their moral merit. Last fall Prince gave $500,000 to St. Louis' Washington University. Although he attached no strings to the gift, the university planned to name a building after him. It was while gathering biographical material on Philanthropist Prince that the crime-hunting Post-Dispatch came across the facts of his distant...