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Managing Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) News (circ. 14,773) thought he knew what the "Newspaper of the Future" would look like: departmentalized news (like a newsmagazine), and no newspaper-style headlines. Fortnight ago, for one edition only, Parham decided to let his readers peer into the future. The eight-page issue (price: 5? ) carried the news in seven departments (Local, State, National, Foreign, Sports, Markets, Life), topped stories in each department with drab, label-style heads (e.g., BRITAIN COAL STRIKE). Instead of the usual 24 stories on Page One, the News crowded...
...Page One box, Managing Editor Parham asked readers what they thought of the experiment. By last week the votes were 10 to i against the new look. Most readers found the headlineless paper dull, couldn't tell big stories from little ones. Complained one subscriber: "You have to read this paper to find out what...
...London spokesman for SHAEF last fortnight when he heard that three U.S. correspondents and an artist attached to the Ninth Air Force had been ordered to leave France and return to London for reassignment because, they alleged, they had displeased the Ninth's public-relations chief, Colonel Robert Parham, by failing to give the Ninth satisfactory publicity (TIME, Sept...
Last week Colonel Parham, detached from the Ninth, was in London awaiting reassignment. The artist and two of the three correspondents were still in France...
...York Post's Stanley Frank, Des Moines Register and Tribune's Gordon Gammack) and an artist, Parade's John Groth, attached to the Ninth Air Force had been ordered out of France. Their explanation: they had displeased the Ninth's public-relations chief, Colonel Robert Parham, a prewar United Press bureau manager, by reporting other news of the war, failing to devote themselves to producing publicity for the Ninth Air Force...