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...expert. He was Arnold Forster, general counsel for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League. Forster recalled an interview by a Cogley assistant, said he had not expected word-for-word quotation, and insisted that Cogley had quoted him incompletely. Though he had indeed linked newspapermen, advertising executives and American Legion officials to "clearance" activities that could "un-blacken" performers, Forster said he had no intention of making them out to be "reprehensible" men. Said he: "From where I sat, the men who are alleged to be clearance men in this context were doing good...
...attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...making common cause against an interloping Johnny-come-lately-the TV newsman with his heavy equipment, hot lights and haughty ways. As the political campaign draws them increasingly to the same assignments, news reporters across the U.S. are showing growing resentment at the TV-men (some of them ex-newspapermen), who seem to be getting in the way more than they ever did before...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, cornering reluctant students to voice an opinion on a man convicted when they were thirteen or fourteen. Photographers were so rambunctious when University proctors spirited Hiss into Whig Hall that he arranged an escape through the rear exit, leaving the men of the press taking pictures of themselves at the front. Representatives from Reuters, the London News-Chronicle, and the New Republic, who were left on the door-step, didn't get much of a story...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...