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...Sullivan, the Friars dinner for Winchell was sheer "hokum," since the Friars permitted a "visiting newspaperman" (i.e., Winchell) "to acknowledge the dinner in his honor by blasting other New York newspapermen." But Winchell, as usual, had the last nasty word. This week, without mentioning his name, he suggested that Sullivan was nothing but a "style-pirate," just like all the other "3-dot larcenists whose letters of 'gratitude' are in the Ingrate File...
...Oatis, the Czechs had only rectified one of their worst outrages against the West and its press, and that there was much more they could do. Said the New York Times: "Is [the Czech] government willing to permit truthful reporting from Prague and to grant personal security to foreign newspapermen honestly engaged in such reporting? That is the real test which, even as we welcome Mr. Oatis, cannot be absent from our minds...
...distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom of the press involved in this proceeding." McCarthy answered him in a mocking wire, addressed to "Arthur Lawson, Editor, New York Post," since "that was Wechsler's Young Communist League name." McCarthy also remarked that he does not regard newspapermen as a "privileged" group, immune from investigation. With that, most newsmen probably agreed. No journalist of standing, not even Wechsler, was arguing that he was a member of a privileged profession. The press has not objected to congressional investigation in the past (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952). especially since journalism...
...beautiful' Rita Hayworth, 'scowling' John L. Lewis, 'Millionaire' Charles E. Wilson or 'Red-hunt ing' Joe McCarthy, he is influencing the reaction of readers in a somewhat nonobjective way, even though he can defend his choice of words with undisputed proof. Honest newspapermen will admit, also, that they unavoidably influence reader reaction by [the placement of] articles . . . The mere fact that an article is on page 1 is an unobjective admission that the editors consider it important...
...Although newspapermen have their annual Pulitzer Prizes, magazines and magazine writers have never had any similar awards. This week the University of Illinois announced the Benjamin Franklin Magazine Awards. Beginning in April of next year, seven prizes with a cash value of $500 and $1,000 will be given every year for "original reporting under adverse circumstances," best nonfiction writing on the U.S. foreign reporting, fiction, humor, personality profiles, and an open category" to be named every year. There will also be one prize (gold medal) for the magazine that has performed "the most distinguished and meritorious public service...