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Opening a Times lecture course for New York City public-school teachers, Sunday Editor Lester Markel denied that Americans are a well-informed people. Judging by the way people answer public opinion polls, he said, "20% of the population belongs in the definitely moronic class; another 20% is ignorant and unwilling to learn; another 40% is ignorant but willing to learn, provided that the lessons are made simple. . . . Informed public opinion in the U.S. depends on a group that consists...
...line "between good-grey press and yellow or purple press," said Markel, divides editors who stress important news from those who stress interesting news. Once in 1922, he recalled, he had asked the late Publisher Adolph S. Ochs: "How does it happen that the Times, which publishes only the news that's fit to print, carries columns upon columns of the Hall-Mills [lovers' lane murder] story...
...Well, Mr. Markel," said Ochs, "if a tabloid prints it, it is smut; if the Times prints it, it is sociology...
...Others: Publisher Sulzberger, Vice President Julius Ochs Adler, Managing Editor Edwin L. James, Sunday Editor Lester Markel, Washington Bureau Chief Arthur Krock, Editor Emeritus Finley...
This money, the Stuart Wyeth bequest, headed a group of sums received totaling to one and a half million dollars. Other sources were: the Carnegie Corporation of New York, $350,000; the Markel Foundation of New York, $25,000; Mrs. George H. Monks, $25,000; the Carr Fund, $113,400; and gifts...