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...foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Ottawa, balding Eugene Griffin handles many a special job for Colonel Bertie McCormick. Last winter, when the Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered...
...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...
CULVER H. GRIFFIN Norwalk, Conn...
Last week, the Schunkelwalzer-in English, You Can't Be True, Dear-was the U.S.'s top tune according to Billboard magazine's weekly poll. Last year, a Chicago organist named Ken Griffin had. recorded it, thinking it was an old folk tune. A record distributer looked it up, discovered it was only twelve years old, and held by the U.S. Office of Alien Property. Its big royalties now go to the U.S. Government. That would make little difference to its German composers: Tunesmith Hans Otten was dead; Lyricist Gerhard Ebeler had dropped from sight...