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...Long Island Star-Journal, which had repeatedly attacked the Youth for Democracy. Commented editorially that while "Quinn's sentiments against the A.Y.D. are those of the people of Queens, newspapermen outside the meeting felt that some of the 42 votes for the A.Y.D. were, in truth, votes against Quinn and his conduct, which the professors regarded as a threat to academic freedom...
...Most newspapermen like to dream about buying a little weekly some day and settling down in the country, but not many ever do anything about it. Montreal's John William Sancton, 29, is one who did. Until six months ago, Sancton was a news editor of the daily Montreal Gazette (circ. 54,383). Now he is editor, publisher and owner of the 104-year-old weekly Stanstead (Quebec) Journal (circ. 1,350) - and enjoying life very much...
Yaleman Archibald MacLeish ('15) has always had a partiality for Harvard, too. He graduated from Harvard Law School (1919), then taught at the college for two years. In 1938, as curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships, he shepherded the first group of newspapermen through their year at Cambridge. Last week Harvard invited MacLeish back for life. The Harvard Corporation picked him for the 178-year-old Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first held by John Quincy Adams and later by such great teachers as LeBaron Russell Briggs (1904-25) and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...
...committee made two recommendations to improve the operation of the Foundation, Pinkerton stated. These are the appointment of an advisory committee to help increase understanding of the work of the Nieman Foundation, and the addition of three newspapermen to the selection committee to aid in the professional appraisal of candidates for Nieman Fellowships. Both these recommendations have already been put into effect...
...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...