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Critic Eleanor Jewett. "The influence of Marca-Relli, Baziotes, De Kooning, Matta and Picasso ... is so obvious that it hurts." Pointing to this year's out-of-town jury (Manhattan's Painter Hedda Sterne and Sculptor Ibram Lassaw, Carnegie Institute's Fine Arts Director Gordon Bailey Washburn), Critic Jewett snorted, "Originality has been sacrificed in the jury's sustained effort to make this Midwest exhibition as like as possible to a New York modern show...
...eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound. His wife is the first of 189,868 victims of the Bomb. As men, women and children are "lacerated into pulpy slivers," Thompson reaches his out-of-town civil defense headquarters but collapses there in a funk...
Unsavory Distinction. The one Colombian paper that got the story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship...
Most Southern news executives have adopted a buck-passing rule of thumb: When in doubt about a racial story, use the press-association copy. For example, in the Autherine Lucy riots, papers in nearby Birmingham were the only out-of-town dailies in the South to send their own staffers to Tuscaloosa to cover the story. Sometimes papers lean on the wire services for racial news even in their own areas. When one major daily recently got tips of forthcoming antisegregation statements by religious leaders, it passed the word along quietly to a wire service instead of going after...
...Times-were strikebound. The stereotypers' union had closed the papers over demands that included a full day's pay for any extra work after eight hours, e.g., for turning out Sunday Edition color plates after hours on a weekday. Newsmagazine sales had gone up 30%; out-of-town newspapers were being sold for as much as $1 a copy...