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...referring to Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation and author of "Libeling our Colleges," a sharp criticism of Griffin's college crusades. The article appears in the January issue of the Atlantic...
...Eugene Griffin, who wrote in series of articles in the Chicago Tribune last year accusing Harvard of being corrupted by "Red Poison," checked in at the Hotel Statler Friday night, reportedly to do another series on "foreign" influences at the University...
...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...
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...