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...medal by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan from Pope Paul VI; Sculptor Alexander Colder, 66, Critic Malcolm Cowley, 66, and Poet Allen Tote, 65, named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; John N. Heiskell, 92, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette, winner of Arizona University's John Peter Zenger Award for his support of integration in the 1957 Little Rock controversy, which cost the Gazette $2,000,000 in circulation and advertising revenues...
Stanley N. Katz, an American colonial historian and an instructor at Harvard since 1961. He is editor of "A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger by James Alexander" and holds both the A.B. (1955) and the Ph.D. (1961) from Harvard. He has been Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House since...
...Abraham Lincoln: In the American tradition, shining majestically, there are the Pilgrims and pioneers. Valley Forge and Gettysburg. the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In it. looming large, are William Penn and Daniel Boone. Washington and Paine. Zenger and Marshall, Jefferson and Jackson. In it are faith and hope, tears and laughter. And high in our tradition stands Abraham Lincoln. Can he be explained in any other wav than that he was an instrument of divine destiny? History is but the enfoldment of a divine pattern ... If not this, it can only be materialistic drift. If there...
...Zenger (1697-1746) was brought to trial in 1735 for publishing the New York Weekly Journal, which contained articles attacking the arbitrary measures of the Governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was arrested on the charge of false and scandalous libel, and imprisoned and held incommunicado for nine months. Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, argued that the statements published were in fact true. In deciding for Zenger, the principle was established that the publication of truthful statements could not be considered libelous...
...Reader Drimmer is correct. Since New York was a colony, Zenger was tried under English law, which stated that "if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...