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...committee wanted off-the-record. The reporters flatly rejected the proposal, which could trap them into being parties to news suppression. Next day, by voice vote, the North Carolina legislature rammed through a law legalizing closed appropriations-committee hearings. Argued State Representative Oscar G. Barker, onetime Durham Herald staffer: "The law will set democracy back not less than 100 years in North Carolina." Said the Raleigh News & Observer: "This law is designed to serve the darkness. It should have been entitled: An Act to Reiterate the Doctrine 'The Public Be Damned...
...have always had two ambitions," says Frederick Lewis Allen, "to edit and to write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found time to write such well-known books as Only Yesterday, The Great Pierpont Morgan, and The Big Change. Last week, at 62, Writer-Editor Allen's second ambition triumphed over his first. He announced his resignation as editor of Harper's Magazine (although he will continue as an adviser...
...rate Sunday concerts. Worcester was one of the first U.S. museums to exhibit foreign films. Some staid Worcesterites thought it "too cheapening for words," but a lot of the unstaid began to come in for a look. At first, some of them came just for the movies. When a staffer gloated over the fact that 1,000 people had come to see a movie, Taylor sighed: "Yes, but how many looked at the paintings...
...Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses of "political murder." From the French bank came shouts of rage. "The Germans are up to their old tricks of 1938, when they accused the Poles of similar atrocities," snapped an unforgiving Quai d'Orsay staffer...
...Staff members of the University of Illinois must have nothing more to do with the mysterious horse-serum drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951), ruled President George D. Stoddard, because "the Krebiozen affair has been damaging to our scientific reputation." Staffer chiefly affected: Vice President Andrew Ivy, who insisted on giving the secret cancer serum a full trial...