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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born with a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, Amory (Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity world overcame the society world-nobody looks at Mrs. Vanderbilt's pearls any more; they just want to see what Marlene Dietrich is wearing...
Some newspaper editors like the idea. "I think it's an intelligent device for distributing news releases and handouts from commercial concerns," said the Los Angeles Mirror-News' managing editor, Ed Murray. "A machine like this doesn't commit you to use the stuff, and I think one's judgment of the news value is likely to be better if it comes in by a machine. And it helps cut down on all that opening of letters...
...editors share Murray's view. Said Taylor Trumbo, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times: "Our main objection to such a service is that it would cut down on the personal planting of news releases. We are visited by any number of planters, and we get to know those we think are reliable and those we might have to check further on." On that principle, the Times refused to let Transmit install its machine...
Last week President Eisenhower confronted the growing controversy at his press conference in Washington. Said Ike: "I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single out any group of citizens and say, 'This is a matter of legal compulsion,' I can see why they are resentful...
...number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part," said Ike firmly, "I should think that the loyalty oath, the basic citizenship oath, is sufficient...