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Last week, with the awards due on May 25, CBS News Chief Fred W. Friendly came right out and called Emmy a tart. "Insofar as CBS News is concerned," he wrote in a memo to the staff, "we have not and shall not purchase memberships for our employees; we shall not participate in the awards ceremonies, and I recommend that we even desist from voting in this so-called competition...
...publication of the Lucas memo prior to the burial of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was the journalistic error of the century. Publication three weeks later might have been excusable if reference to Truman and various generals had been deleted. While MacArthur was probably correctly quoted, there was no intimation that he approved the memo, as written, for publication, no matter how long after his death. Such journalistic childishness goes so far beyond common decency that it leaves a bad smell...
...There are many good reasons for this change of command," Luce said in his memo to the staff. "The best and sufficient reason is that Hedley Donovan is highly qualified to be editor-in-chief...
...colleagues in the Time & Life Building and at Time Inc. offices around the world, the choice of Donovan as editor-in-chief came as no surprise. In his staff memo, Henry Luce recalled that when he appointed Donovan editorial director he thought it "a brilliant stroke all my own." But the first Time Inc. executive he met that day said matter-of-factly: "It was obvious-inevitable." So was last week's appointment. As his predecessor said: "Donovan has earned the professional respect and the personal confidence of all who have worked with...
...behind the threnody was heard the thunder of controversy that had accompanied MacArthur throughout so much of his lifetime. Appearing in print were the reports of two decade-old, off-the-record interviews with MacArthur. One, by Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas, was published in the form of a memo sent by Lucas to his bosses at the time. The other appeared as a reminiscence by Hearst's Bob Considine. Both portrayed MacArthur as an embittered man who had held the Communists "in the palm of my hand," only to be "betrayed" by "those fools in Washington...