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...Swiss citizen, Comte may not claim the South African gliding altitude record, which now stands at 21,000 ft. He will have to send the record from his sealed barograph home to Switzerland for any official recognition. In Johannesburg, however, South Africa's Champion Harry Lasch shook his head in amazement at Comte's flight. Official or not, "it was magnificent, and is going to be very hard to beat...
Concentrated Privilege. As an instance of the divergence between people and publishers, Author Lasch cites the newspaper publishers' violent denunciation of the Government's antitrust suit against Associated Press "as a foul assault upon the First Amendment." Recalling the "frightening unanimity" of their attempt to foist this view on the public, he declares...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...
Concentrated Power. Lasch's broad-stroked portrait of the newspaper owner: "In many a community the biggest single political fact may be the existence of a certain newspaper and a certain publisher. In a real sense this man is an arm of government, and a peculiarly irresponsible arm. . . . Mayors, governors, legislators and Congressmen drink at the well of his wisdom. Civic movements start or stop according as he nods or shakes his head...
Cooperative Endeavor. "In candor," writes Lasch, "redress cannot be expected from a revival of competition. The clock does not turn back. Having survived one era of jungle warfare, and facing now a new kind of rivalry in radio, the newspapers will not tolerate a further division of the spoils. And save for a few venturesome souls, the prospective rewards are unlikely to attract new enterprisers...