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...widespread but quite needless timidity with which many papers approach news involving religious controversy" was deplored by Sevellon Brown III, editor of the Providence Journal-Bulletin (combined circ. 202,819). Wrote he: "Any newspaper boss who is afraid of alienating readers or advertisers by the straightforward handling of news or the vigorous expression of editorial opinion when religious viewpoints impinge upon public affairs is seeing things under the bed . . . The bulk of newspaper readers are essentially reasonable people over the long run. They'll howl plenty when you tread on their pet opinions - especially religious opinions. But if they...
...Died. Sevellon Brown, 70, grammar-school-educated longtime editor (1920-53) and publisher (1942-54) of the lofty-minded Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, and founder (1946) of Columbia University's American Press Institute; of a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. Newsman Brown, who took over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months...
...journalists are Sevellon Brown III, editor of the Providence Journal and Bulletin, Carroll Binder '16, editorial page editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, and Harry T. Montgomery, traffic manager of the AP and a former Nieman Fellow...
...Sevellon Brown, who looks and often talks like a college professor, never went beyond grammar school. He started out in newspapers as a $10-a-week ad salesman on the Milwaukee Journal. After working for the U.P. and newspapers in the East, he got a job in the Journal and Bulletin's Washington bureau as a correspondent. When he first joined the staff, the papers had a far different reputation from the one he eventually gave them...
Publisher Brown has little fear that his papers will ever fall into the slothful ways attributed to some monopolies. Five months ago, 40-year-old Associate Editor Sevellon ("Jeff") Brown 3rd moved into the editor's chair that his father occupied, while Publisher Brown held his title as the paper's boss. Jeff Brown, Amherst ('34), joined the Journal and Bulletin in 1939 after working for the A.P., U.P. and Pathfinder. He was followed to the paper a year later by his brother Barry, 38, chief editorial writer, who last month won a year's Nieman...