Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series will be a reply to an article in the Atlantic Monthly by Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons '20 attacking the Tribune's first series. Eugene Griffin, who wrote the first series for the Tribune has already left his Ottawa post to start work on the new series, it was learned...
Lyons' Atlantic Monthly article, "Libeling Our Colleges," attacked Griffin's charges of "red" and "foreign" influences at Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Lyons also attacked the Tribune's journalistic standards, pointing to its election night "Dewey Wins" headline...
...exhibit pained Griffin. It gave examples of how news is distorted. Its examples were marked clippings from the Trib and from the Communist New York Daily Worker, contrasted with clips from the New York Times and Herald Tribune. Correspondent Griffin muttered darkly that "this will make the Colonel...
Dartmouth didn't wait for the Colonel to get mad. It hastily sent 2,000 key alumni a fill-in on what was up. Correspondent Griffin, the Hanover Bulletin pointed out sympathetically, "is a pleasant fellow, but there was no doubt . . . he had been sent on a mission and that he was mostly interested in proving a point. For example, he said . . . 'if the Colonel says to do a story to prove that the moon is green, we go out and prove...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...