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These dicta helped win for their author a $1,000 prize offered by the Atlantic Monthly for an article on freedom of the press. Victor over nearly 700 competitors, mostly working newsmen, the author is Robert Lasch, 37, Rhodes Scholar and Nieman Fellow, now one of four editorial writers for Marshall Field's left-wing Chicago Sun. Like most modern social critics, Writer Lasch virtually absolves "the people" of moral responsibility for social ills, assigns that responsibility almost exclusively to the leaders. At times his essay suggests a private's-eye view of the generals. But every experienced...
...participants and spectators to the fight, the Chicago Sun's Robert Lasch did some pregnant soliloquizing: "Don't make the mistake of assuming that this is a struggle over the dead issue of pre-war isolationism. What men stood for before Pearl Harbor has been washed out by the elections. It is what they stand for now and in the future that matters. ... I think we shall find that the division, though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely...
Professor Henry W. Holmes, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education, will head the Speakers Committee: Clarence H. Haring. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, the Pan-American Relations Committee: and Robert Lasch, Nieman Fellow from the Omaha "World Herald," the Public Opinion Committee, which is composed entirely of Nieman Fellows...
...publisher, Lee County Bulletin, Auburn, Als.; Robert E. Dickson, cable and telegraph editor, New York World-Telegram; Donald Grant, reporter, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Henning Heldt, reporter, Jacksonville Journal; Everett R. Holles, cable editor, United Press; Victor O. Jones, sports editor and assistant managing editor, Boston Globe; Robert Lasch, foreign news editor and editorial writer. Omaha World-Herald; Edward M. Miller, Sunday and feature editor, Portland Oregonian; Thomas Sancton, reporter, Associated Press; Kenneth N. Stewart, national news editor, The Newspaper...