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...Teamster goons accused of dynamiting and arson (TIME, Dec. 30); illegally "retiring" hundreds of felony cases, putting the defendants in his power by letting them out of jail but keeping them subject to prosecution. By overwhelming votes, the house adopted 24 of the 25 counts, concluded that "no Tennessean should be forced to [stand trial] before such a judge." Next step: an impeachment trial in the Senate...
...want to scare our advertisers to death," says Editor Joseph E. Lambright of the Savannah morning News, which last month reported that downtown sales were off 10%, next day ran an advertiser-pressured "clarification" explaining that the slump was caused by the suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason to be sensitive to these arguments: while circulation has held steady, U.S. advertising linage slipped 6.4% in January from the 1957 level for that month...
...advertiser's theory is that news of the recession stirs up even more caution and uncertainty in consumers. But newspapers that tailor the news to this formula help neither the economy nor themselves. Says Tennessean Editor Coleman A. Harwell: "How can we pretend there's no unemployment when people are talking about it? If we pretend, we look stupid...
When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
...special interest in the Democrats v. Nixon contests was the fact that Tennessean Kefauver did as well in the Midwest, where he is still regarded as the farmers' friend, as in the South, which regards him as a civil libertarian. Massachusetts Catholic Kennedy trailed Nixon in the East, the Midwest and the Far West, picked up his entire advantage in the South, whose friendship he has been careful to cultivate, e.g., by his recent vote for the jury-trial amendment on the Senate's civil rights bill...