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...idea of Perspectives was presented to the foundation by James Laughlin, 37, great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., and founder and angel of the avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print...
Brief Victory. Nevertheless, Negre tried to run A.F.P. as if it were in fact independent. When government agencies sent handouts, A.F.P. conscientiously identified the sources. By its performance, A.F.P. largely managed to avoid the taint of being kept. As a result, by last year A.P.P. had grown even bigger than old Havas, was servicing 41 countries, 2,500 newspaper clients (including North and South American), 120 radio stations. This year it expects to gross 1,080,000,000 francs ($3.1 million) on top of its 1,470,000,000-franc ($4.2 million) government subsidy...
...this series have spotted this difficulty, and have pointed out by way of introduction that the mere appearance of a person's name in the series does not make him or her a subversive. However, this can hardly be effective at a time when the smallest suspicion of Communist taint is enough to seriously discredit a person...
...another story which dealt with President Truman's news classification directive, Louis M. Lyons, Curator of Nieman Fellowships, said he "had no intention of ascribing any taint of politics to the Association of Managing Editors' protest at the President's directive." He pointed out that he was "with them on it 100 percent...
McKay was sure that men "who have as clear a record" as the three University professors named, would ultimately be rid of any taint in Washington once there was an investigation...