Word: markel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JAYNE MARKEL San Francisco
...Times walked, eyes open, into a trap, well described last Oct. 4 by the In-national Press Institute, founded by the Times's Sunday Editor Lester Markel...
...editors of the free world, no problem is greater than covering Russia and its satellites, where a free press is unknown. Last week the International Press Institute, founded by the New York Times's Sunday Editor Lester Markel to explore just such matters, took up the problem in a report, The News from Russia. After sounding out more than 100 U.S. and foreign editors by questionnaire, I.P.I, concluded: "The occasional dispatch [an editor] receives from Moscow is completely misleading when he presents it in the traditional manner...
...better prepared for the unexpected than the New York Times. For its two-page summary of the "News of the Week in Review," which usually closes at 7 p.m., Sunday Editor Markel had .aken no chances. He had ordered four different leads written for the section (will run, won't run, etc.). When the speech came through, staffers quickly dropped in he right heads and lead, caught two-birds of the Sunday press run with a complete story on the Truman decision...
...people all over the world were better informed about the other people they call foreigners, it should become a less fearful, if not braver world. That is the modest hope of Editor Markel and I.P.I...