Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...footnote to your Press section [Jan. 1] incorrectly stated that William Farr was jailed for refusing to name his sources for a story in the Los Angeles Times. Farr's story actually was published by the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, for which he worked before joining, in succession, the district attorney's office and the Los Angeles Times...
PORTRAITS FROM NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE by Edward S. Curtis. Introduction by A.D. Coleman and T.C. McLuhan. 176 pages. Outerbridge & Lazard. $25. When the first two volumes of Edward Sheriff Curtis' The North American Indian were published in 1907-8, the New York Herald called it "the most gigantic undertaking in the making of books since the King James edition of the Bible." Before he was through Curtis had completed 20 volumes of text bound with 1,500 small photographs and 20 unbound portfolios. The price was $3,000. At $25, this selection of about 10% of the Curtis...
During the Charles Manson trial in the fall of 1970, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Reporter William T. Farr obtained and published details from a prosecution witness's pretrial statement. The material was sensational: it told of the Manson group's plans to murder several celebrities (Elizabeth Taylor's eyes were to be mailed to an ex-husband; Frank Sinatra was to be flayed alive). Trial Judge Charles H. Older, who had previously prohibited lawyers and others involved from giving out information on the case, decided to punish the source of the leak. He asked Farr to identify...
Seven months later, however, when Farr left the Herald-Examiner for a public relations job, the persistent judge subpoenaed him, claiming that he had not only lost the protection of Section 1070 but that he was also an accessory to a violation of the court's gag order. Although Farr submitted the names of six attorneys and said that his sources were among them (under oath all denied involvement), Judge Older ordered him jailed until he specified his informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding...
...skewered the Democratic candidate's "motiveless benignity": "He does what he does because it is right, and it is right because he does it." Writing in the New York Times Magazine on the Sunday before Election Day, Wills scoffed at liberal fears that Nixon's re-election would herald the end of freedom: "Learning to live with Nixon is just the prosaic, unappealing task of getting along with ourselves...