Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critical copy has been rare and mild. To Nossal, "gentle" was the word for Red Chinese thought control. In another dispatch he wrote: "Here in China, if the weaklings (or rightists or anyone who isn't for the ruling circles) make too much noise, they are silenced smartly." Then he added: "Any Western commentators who suggest that the masters of Peking do away with their critics are talking utter nonsense...
...transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion. Sucre's citizens hinted darkly that Caracas was in no hurry to put Garcia in the mausoleum beside Bolivar and other gran senor heroes...
Besides being old hands at TIME, all three of the top team are former newspapermen. Roy Alexander, a graduate of St. Louis University ('18), was assistant city editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he joined TIME in 1939. Harvardman ('32, president of the Crimson) Otto Fuerbringer, a native St. Louisan, was a reporter, political writer and art columnist on the Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1942. Tom Griffith, a graduate of the University of Washington ('36) and Harvard Nieman Fellow, was on the staff of the Seattle Times for six years...
...market shares fell 15¾ points by week's end. Frank Prince was, understandably, personally distressed. "I have never asked anyone not to publish anything about me," he said. "But this is a vicious thing." Richard Amberg, publisher of the rival St. Louis Globe-Democrat, accused the Post-Dispatch of "the dirtiest Goddamned piece of journalism I've ever seen in my life." At Washington University, Chancellor Ethan A. H. Shepley calmly acknowledged that he knew all about Prince's record, just as calmly said that the university still meant to name a building after Prince...
Letters of Protest. At week's end the Post-Dispatch, under the heading, "Dissent to a Story," printed several letters of protest. Example: "If Mr. Prince has paid his 'debt to society,' why then hold up his past to public opprobrium?" But beyond that, the paper was unmoved. "I really don't want to discuss the story," said Editor Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Said Managing Editor Raymond L. Crowley: "I think the stories simply speak for themselves." Indeed they did-but not so much about Frank Prince as about the Post-Dispatch...