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PUDDING PREOCCUPATION with publicity began paying dividends long ago and in grand fashion. When the 100th show Here's the Pitch, billed as a "Gay '90s extravaganza," opened in 1947, Newsweek and Life each devoted a full page to the event. "The club began when undergraduates gathered in each other's room to put on mock trials," Life reported. "By 1844 they had developed real theatricals...
...JULY 12, 1971, twelve days after the United States Supreme Court had ruled by a 6-3 majority that government agencies could not prevent publication of the "top-secret" Pentagon Papers, Newsweek magazine ran a banner headline on its cover, "Victory for the Press." The Court's decision was based on First Amendment guarantees against prior restraint of newspapers by the government, and on the public's right to know. Newsweek, surveying the respective positions of the litigants in the case, pronounced: "Few clearer gauges of the sanctity of the First Amendment freedoms, few plainer demonstrations of the openness...
...Newsweek was not alone in its ebullience; the press generally regarded the Supreme Court's decision as a vital affirmation of its right to gather and dispense information independently of government pressure. Moreover, journalists felt that the Court's decision would have broad, longterm effects on its relationship with the Federal branch. But a quick glance at any newspaper today, on almost any day, will show that the press's nirvana has dissipated as rapidly as it mounted; like a false spring spoiled by an April blizzard, the Court's 1971 decision has dissolved in the face of a high...
...Executive Editor, covered the search for a year, securing inside information more than once and publishing lists of the candidates on the Corporation's docket at frequent intervals. When Derek C. Bok was selected as President, Jacobs was ready to tell Harvard--and the world, through his connection with Newsweek--everything there was to be known about the Law School Dean and the reasons for his selection...
...also in the fact that only two years after Linda Greenhouse there was a different paper and in a sense a different decade of The Crimson to represent as I am sure any of you who has read The New York Daily News or Evans and Novak or Newsweek knows by now that era of The Crimson in which a good third of us here tonight was involved was that of the pinko...