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...Including Sevellon Brown, Providence Journal publisher; Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science Monitor editor; Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr., and John Carter Vincent, U.S. Minister to Switzerland...
...story of the 20th Century too vast and confusing for the men who were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...Last week, at Columbia University, Sevellon Brown helped open the first seminar of the American Press Institute. Thirty-eight publishers had thought enough of his idea to chip in $170,000 to finance a two-year trial run. Aim: through marathon bull sessions, to add a cubit to the stature of the U.S. press. Plan: for two to four weeks each, groups of 25 working newspapermen (average age of the first 25 students, 44; average newspaper experience, 22 years) would face a tougher grind than any undergraduate class. They would live, study and argue together, from eight to twelve hours...
...State Representatives scowled at the Journal by passing a measure calling for the investigation of its tax payments to the City of Providence, supposedly because it had been under-assessed. In October, another camera was destroyed. This time it belonged to the Star, and the Journal's Editor Sevellon Brown was accused of breaking it. When a judge released Mr. Brown, the Star let loose a journalistic catcall at the decision, was promptly held in contempt of court by the incensed jurist...
...owner of Pathfinder was bustling, 48-year-old Managing Editor Sevellon Brown of the Providence Journal and Bulletin. Inheriting a share in Pathfinder last February from his father-in-law, the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised...