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Some three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela side of the city which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening...
Favorite observation of saturnine old newspapermen, who remember how rich Groceryman Frank Andrew Munsey bought 17 important newspapers between 1912 and 1924 and killed half of them through his thumping ignorance of practical newspapering, is that nothing has been right in the profession since "the grocers took over the newspaper business." Last week the grocers got a better grip on the magazine business...
...seem to realize was that in the 20th Century there is simply no corner of the earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch named Pirate just in case...
This recommendation regarding picture-taking provided the one discordant note in the committee's report. After the report was printed, says a stapled addendum, "a divergence of recollection" arose on this topic. No surprise to newspapermen was this divergence when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended...
...news to give out, he likes to have as many Washington correspondents as possible at press conference. Last week, the biggest press conference since the President announced his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court was on hand when he started out by saying that he knew exactly what the newspapermen wanted to ask and was prepared to answer for quotation. Without more ado, the President read a prepared statement...