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More than two months ago, the Post* decided to find out who was responsible. City Editor Harry Johnston assigned Rewriteman Ralph O'Leary, 42, to "take your time, and find out all you can about this thing." Last week the Post completed an eleven-part series that blamed the Houston Chapter of Minute Women of the U.S.A., Inc. for much of the "large-scale Red scare in the community." The 200-odd Minute Women compose "the most powerful organization of its kind in Houston in more than a quarter century" (i.e., since the death of the local Ku Klux...
...Angeles, an impartial arbitrator had just decided that the fuzzily liberal tabloid Daily News had acted properly in firing Rewriteman Vern Partlow, and in refusing to rehire Movie Reviewer Darr Smith. Both men had been named by former Communists testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee as their onetime fellow members. Both men had refused to say under oath if they were, or had been Communists. The News's Executive Editor Lee F. Payne fired Partlow and struck Darr Smith's name off a rehiring list...
...Chicago] Tribune in [length of] sentences but over in syllables. The Sun-Times beat both of you . . ." To Martin's note, City Editor Clem Lane had scribbled an approving p.s.: "Let's shorten the sentences and shorten the words . . ." Later, scanning a long-sentenced lead by Veteran Rewriteman Robert Faherty, Lane growled an even more explicit order: "Let's keep the sentences under 15 words." Wounded, Bob Faherty decided to take Lane literally, began to brood over what he called "Formula...
...Flowers, Please. After five months as assistant city editor, Aggie had beaten down most of the local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last week: "Aggie's not a woman. She's a newspaperman. No one would dare send her flowers on this occasion. She'd throw 'em at whoever...
Suggestion: A "rewriteman" for the administrative and lawmaking bodies to remove this obstacle of "officialese and legalese" and make things say what they mean in TIME'S "curt, clear and complete...