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...HARRY JOHNSTON'S death diminishes the South." Thus one of the nation's leading editors, Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, saluted Reporter Harry Johnston, who died at 48, of emphysema and pneumonia, in his fourth year as chief of Time's Atlanta bureau...
...Editor Patterson published his warm tribute to Johnston in the Constitution, and since it says so much so well about the problems confronting a conscientious craftsman reporting on the troubled South, we quote from it here as a shared salute to the memory of a colleague: "He was no angry liberal in the ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed...
...good for the South," Patterson wrote, "that he ran Time's Atlanta bureau, because here was a man who had an affectionate understanding of the Southern people and an implacable determination not to temporize with their misleaders...
...details of the commission's position on conscientious objection, national service, the volunteer army, and the autonomy of local draft boards were not available last night. It will be some two weeks. Bradley H. Patterson, executive director of the commission, said last night, before the report is made public...
Though the Times' article did not mention the volunteer army proposal, Patterson said the commission had made a "solid decision" on the issue. He declined to say whether the "solid decision" was in favor of the scheme or against it, but all sources indicated the panel had voted down the volunteer army...