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...Each time, the jury has shown little interest in finding out about criminal matters that the newsmen have reported. Instead, it has investigated the journalists themselves-their private habits as well as their professional performances. The objective is obviously harassment. "In my 35 years as a newspaperman," says Gene Robb, publisher of both the morning Times-Union and the afternoon Knickerbocker News, "I have never heard of a comparable situation...
...newspapers are scarcely standard crusaders. In the 46 years that crusty old Dan O'Connell has commanded the city's Democratic machine, the papers had fallen into the habit of ignoring stories critical of him. When Gene Robb, a longtime Hearst executive in Washington, took over the chain's Times-Union in 1953, O'Connell had no reason to expect any change. Christened "Mr. Nice Guy U.S.A." by Albany staffers, Robb concentrated on the business side of the papers, succeeded in purchasing the Knickerbocker News from the Gannett chain...
Indictment & Acquittal. Robb then turned to the papers' editorial side. "It was my conclusion," he says, "that our job should be a reporting job." The first full job of coverage was on a report by the State Investigation Commission condemning the city's purchasing practices. Then, in 1961, Reform Candidate Rev. Robert K. Hudnut ran for mayor against the machine-picked Erastus Corning II. The papers duly reported Hudnut's charges against the machine: that it had been controlling votes through tax assessments; that it had been making huge profits in settling tax-delinquency cases. Corning...
Tackle Bob Stack picked off one of Dartmouth quarterback Bill Robb's passes in the third quarter and returned it to the Green 10. Three plays later, quarterback Pete Berg threw to halfback Marshall Goldberg for the touchdown, and John Beaulieu kicked the extra point...
...Robb Burlage, another SDS member and a graduate student in Economics began his talk on the Great Society and the war's effect on it by lambasting the President for "declaring war on everything: Vietnam, puberty, poverty, and Congressman Ford. It seems as though our President has a Churchill complex...