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Salinger maintained a stoic silence; the attacks were no more, and certainly no less, than the presidential press secretary had been handling all week. No sooner had the A.S.N.E. opened its annual convention than Salinger was served with a report from Eugene S. Pulliam, managing editor of the Indianapolis News and chairman of the society's Freedom of Information Committee. The report charged the President with reneging on a campaign promise to keep the public informed. "President Kennedy," noted Pulliam, "was on record in writing as believing in freedom of information. To date, neither he nor his Administration...
...Pulliam seemed mollified by Salinger's explanation, e.g., "The President has stated on several occasions that only information affecting the national security will be withheld. He . . . would welcome reports of any violations of that policy." But what the A.S.N.E. panelists got was limping generality. "We live in a different world." Salinger told them-a world in which the accredited presidential-press-conference contingent has swollen from 200 in Franklin D. Roosevelt's time to 1,000 today. Furthermore, said Salinger coldly, despite complaints, television is here to stay...
Inevitably Eugene Pulliam got wind of Evans, and in 1959 invited him out to Indianapolis to be chief editorial writer for the News. It was only a short way further...
Closer to Wisdom. As an editor younger than most of his staff-among them Gene Pulliam's son Eugene S., who is 46 and managing editor-Evans plans not to interfere with the news operations. The only change he has ordered so far is to dress up the editorial page with pictures, including a half-column cut of himself. Still a zealous disciple of conservatism, he spends hours poring through its literature in his third-floor walkup apartment just around the corner from the News. He attends Roberts Park Methodist Church, devotes his evenings to political ward meetings, public...
...convinced as is Gene Pulliam at 71 that he is on the right track, journalistically as well as otherwise. "I think my philosophy is pretty close to the farmer in Seymour, Ind.," he says. "He believes in God. He believes in the U.S. He believes in himself. This intuitive position is much closer to wisdom than the tortured theorems of some of our Harvard dons...