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...press confab last year Harry Truman wished aloud: "The thing I'd like to do if I ran a newspaper would be the telegraph editor and the blue-pencil man. And then I'd sure get what I wanted in the paper!" In Miami last week Harry got his wish, muffed his opportunity. Invited by the Miami Herald's Republican Publisher John S. Knight to try out a blue pencil, Truman accepted, but first he visited the Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle...
...Thurber Carnival is a one-mind show, an animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. The thought of such a show, however alluring, must cause qualms: Can a world, neither flesh, fish nor fowl and at the same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been...
...investigate all the Air Force manuals. The Air Force started its own investigation, named its deputy chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...
Just a Performance. Paradoxically, the battle forces get along best where the provocation is greatest-in Washington, where press conferences come as thick as Congressmen. President Eisenhower established his own pattern early in his presidency by inviting all accredited comers, TV and pencil newsmen alike, to his news conferences. On the other hand...
Washington has at least faced the fact of life: the TV camera is here to stay. But accepting that fact is not easy for old pencil men. Says Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, a onetime newspaperman and now a TV man: "With TV cameras, it becomes a performance, not a real press conference...