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Sacred Character. The trouble really started after Freeman Editor Henry Hazlitt brought Forrest Davis, ex-Saturday Evening Post Washington editor, to the magazine. Instead of being Hazlitt's man, Davis had ideas of his own on how to run the magazine, and Chamberlain and Managing Editor Suzanne La Follette generally agreed. In short order Hazlitt had a falling-out with them. Among other things he also objected to putting out the "kind of magazine in which McCarthy is a sacred character." In October Hazlitt, Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though...
...Alex L. Hillman, successful publisher (Pageant Homeland, People Today), announced his resignation because "it has been almost impossible for the past six months to run the magazine." With the board lined up against them, Editors Chamberlain Davis La Follette also resigned. Then the directors present unanimously brought back Henry Hazlitt as top editor. As soon as Hazlitt assembles a new staff he expects to recreate a Freeman with a quieter voice. Said he: "I want to put out a journal of opinion which will represent the older liberalism and that puts emphasis i liberty of the individual . . . and conduct...
...first time it will carry ads and go on sale on newsstands (in 50 cities) outside New York. Bossing distribution will be Alex L. Hillman, a successful publisher (Pageant, Homeland, People Today, twelve pulps). Added to the Freeman's editorial board, which includes Suzanne La Follette and Henry Hazlitt, will be Forrest Davis, an ex-editor of Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News, political writer and onetime Washington editor of the Satevepost...
...fairly large order for a discussion panel that sits for only 15 minutes and is repeatedly interrupted by commercials for Longines-Wittnauer watches. The resident truth-seekers are Veteran Newsman Frank Taylor (former managing editor of the late St. Louis Star-Times-see PRESS) and Newsweek Contributing Editor Henry Hazlitt. As guest performer on the opening show, Admiral William Blandy doubted that the Soviet Union would start a war, but urged "anticipatory retaliation" whenever U.S. Intelligence indicated that Russia was planning an aggressive move...
After hearing the LaFollette-Hazlitt-Chamberlain plan, he decided to fold up faltering Plain Talk and transfer the 5,000 unexpired subscriptions to The Freeman. He became treasurer and helped to raise $130,000 (of which Kohlberg contributed 10%). Names of other supporters were a resolutely-kept secret...