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...Yorker's A. J. (The Wayward Pressman) Liebling, a self-appointed spare-time judge of journalistic transgressions, has bestowed on Newhouse the title of "journalistic chiffonnier"?a French word that means "ragpicker." While Newhouse was angling for Portland's evening daily, the Oregon Journal (he hooked it last year), David Eyre, then the Journal's managing editor, pointedly referred to him in print as Samuel ISIDOR New-house." (Newhouse is indeed of Jewish descent, but his middle initial stands for nothing at all.) Last week, inspired in part by Newhouse's acquisition of New Orleans and in part...
Picket organizer Harvey Pressman, teaching fellow in History, said he would protest the "very restrictive and hostile attitude of the police...
...Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in the "second stage" of protesting against segregation practices...
Promising more picketing in the future, Pressman expressed confidence that continued pressure would have an important economic effect on the theatre. Present plans call for another demonstration in the downstown theatre district within two weeks and then a series of protests at suburban theaters. ABC-Paramount officials jelly refused to comment on the demonstration...
Lincoln's Birthday was chosen as a date for mass demonstrations all over the country in order to call attention to the renewed student protests, Pressman said...