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...overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
...uniform in his native New York, half an hour from home by subway. "Now finally he was facing the enemy, in their holy city of Munich, but late, a month after the last shot." To his desk come scores of German newspapermen begging licenses to enable them to find work. As he flays the unheroic, passive collaborators among them, Cooper becomes obsessed by a desire to know what his own behavior would have been under similar circumstances...
...strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul our particular nest with lasting effect." One delegate called Howard's speech "an insulting attack on working newspapermen...
Should the press, as the commission suggested, "engage in vigorous mutual criticism?" No, answered Columnist Walter Lippmann, admitting to membership in the country-club school of newspapering, in which club members do not discuss each other aloud. Wrote Lippmann: "For there is a fellowship among newspapermen as there is in other crafts and professions. They have to see each other . . . work together. ... I may say that I have tried [such criticism] and have had it tried on me, and my conclusion is that the hard feelings it causes are out of all proportion to the public benefits it causes...
This week, 13 men* who had spent three years and $215,000 in quest of the answers brought in their report. A Free and Responsible Press (University of Chicago Press; $2) was the work, not of newspapermen, but of educators, philosophers, lawyers, a poet, a banker. They, and a handful of assistants, had met 17 times, heard 283 witnesses, reflected and argued as the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They were financed by grants from Time Inc. ($200,000) and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ($15,000). But their conclusions were strictly their...