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...does the heavy punditing for the team, but the quiet Stewart has the reputation of being a better legman. Nevertheless, the brother act performs smoothly. "We have no fights on policy," says Joe. "Our arguments are on points of emphasis-and on how far out on a limb we should...
Manhattan Folklorist Gershon Legman, author of a historical treatise on comic books, showed the psychiatrists some grisly samples and presented some shuddery statistics. Every year 500,000,000 comic books are printed; the average city child reads ten to a dozen a month. If there is only one scene of violence a page, this gives him a diet of "300 scenes of beating, shooting, strangling, torture and blood per month." Every city child who was six years old in 1938 has by now, Legman figured, "absorbed an absolute minimum of 18,000 pictorial beatings, shootings, stranglings, blood puddles and torturings...
...shabby maelstrom at 9:30 in the morning, she sets the tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
Editor W. Linton Andrews of the Tory Yorkshire Post learned that one of his staff members, 20-year-old Legman Peter Fryer, had carried a Red banner in a May Day demonstration. Andrews asked Communist Fryer for an explanation. He got an apology, and a promise from Fryer that he would never wear his Red sympathies in public again. But Reporter Fryer refused to renounce his Communism. The issue was plain; and neither the editor nor his employee tried to duck it. Wrote Editor Andrews...
...legman was not Woltman, though the signature on the story was his, and the credit belonged mostly to him. Freddy Woltman gets most of the stories he writes by sitting at his desk in the city room. Other reporters usually develop the tips. A carefully cultivated army of tipsters, many of them disgruntled ex-Communists, keep his two phones humming all day long. Woltman checks the tips in a four-decker steel filing case, which bulges with clippings, speeches, articles, manifestoes, bulletins and letters from Communist sources, files of Woltman's "favorite morning newspaper": the Daily Worker. His steel...