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...Editors Greenfield and Bradlee of the Washington Post [May 10] are guilty of hypocrisy. Editors decry publicists as flacks, yet scream when information isn't available. Whether editors like it or not, the press and the public relations profession are in a partnership. Only when newspapers build up their reporting staffs so that they can do the job alone will the need for the professional public relations person go away...
...small patch of prairie last week, Greenfield, Iowa, graduated its 100th high school class. From a fragile start, the procession has gone through 99 years of corn crops, Presidents, wars, droughts, babies and blizzards. Six girls formed the senior class of 1883. They stood up for their diplomas in the Greenfield opera house on a June night. Greenfield was still tentative then, with wooden buildings, dirt streets and the scuffed look of any human habitation that dares stand before the scouring west wind. "A land without echoes or shadow," wrote John Madson in his evocative new book, Where...
...wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...
...oration, "The Perils of Luxury." A niece of Nellie's was at the 100th commencement last week. Ruth Haddock, 90, drove her 1963 Dodge from her home on the south side of town near the depot up to the new school auditorium on the north side of Greenfield. She took in all the proceedings, declared them worthy of her Aunt Nellie, pointed out that there was still peril in luxury and drove back home again beneath scowling thunderheads that were bridged by a double rainbow...
...week's end both Bradlee and Greenfield were backing off. Bradlee said that he meant only to stress that "no one has to hire a rainmaker to see us"; he waffled when asked whether the Post really meant to refuse all interviews set up by p.r. firms. Indeed, speaking for the feature sections, Bradlee said, "We will take all calls." Greenfield insisted that she had wanted only to keep her opinion pages "Caesar's wife-ish" and open to all comers. Added she: "It was not my intention to direct this to the news side...