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...life and used the house and grounds as background; Boston Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens spent five days there as a house guest and constant interviewer. Out of this close view of the subject's way of life as well as an intensive study of her works, Writer John Koffend fashioned BOOKS' heartwarming story of The Telltale Hearth...
...story is the result of long and friendly (as well as critical) consideration of U.S. newspapers by the whole editorial staff. It involved a close study of newspapers all over the U.S. by correspondents and editors, and a sustained dialogue between correspondents and Press Editor John Koffend and Senior Editor Richard Seamon. While it was literally impossible to draft a precise set of criteria on which to measure one newspaper against another-since the communities they serve differ so widely-there was one central question that had overriding importance: Has the community in which this newspaper is published been measurably...
...mindful of the situation but try not to be tongue-tied by it. Naturally, since we're in the same craft, envy is apt to show in our enthusiasm for a journalistic job well done, and irritation or anger at a job that is not. Press Editor John Koffend is charged not only with reporting the news in his area, but with casting a critical eye over it-over the success or shortcomings of a paper and the performance of its editors and correspondents, over the birth of a new magazine or the response of the press...
...aspects of U.S. life," says Richard Seamon, the senior editor of the section, "but is itself peculiarly sensitive to criticism." And since the press regards itself as alone equipped to criticize its own performance, but in public rarely does, it is a very windswept corner where Seamon and Koffend...
...times are getting worse-and therefore better for the satirist. Right now cartooning is "like going into the garbage-collecting business. There's no money, but worse than that, there is no prestige." For other strong opinions, and the career that came of them, see Press Editor John Koffend's story...