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Last week, after a mere 256 years of suspended animation, the name, of the first paper had life again. Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, got safely past Vol. I, No. 2. Under its new management, it saw no need to change its aims with the times: it would continue to expose any "malicious Raiser of a False Report," would work "towards the Curing, or at least the Charming of that Spirit of Lying, which prevails amongst...
...second editor was Dr. Frank Monaghan, a tweedy historian and onetime Yale professor who got the idea of reviving Publick Occurrences while doing a biography of its founder 15 years ago. He thought about it during long months in the Pentagon as an Army P.R.O., later talked a well-to-do Manhattan friend, , William Henry Walling, into printing it without charge. Actress Peggy Wood, wife to Publisher Walling, became "Dramaticks Editor" on the same basis-no pay; Thurman (Folklore of Capitalism) Arnold was signed on as Washington stringer; Novelist H. M. Tomlinson was to report from London...
...Publick Occurrences was also "now full weary of the strange Fulminations of both Henry Wallace and Harold ('The Terrible') Ickes and their Ranting about . . . 'MILITARY FASCISM.' . . ." It snickered over a typo in "our youngish but esteemed Contemporary, the New York Times." It needled The Lone Ranger for brazenly stating from coast to coast "that nowhere in the pages of History can you find a greater champion of justice...
...them; he just wanted to have some fun and pay "a simple little tribute to freedom of the press." As for pay, he referred them to his prospectus : "We publish no pictures, the last refuge of the Illiterate. . . . We accept no paid Advertisements. . . . You cannot buy a copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon, a jug of maple syrup or any other good...
When would his next issue be? In the words of Publick Occurrences' first editor, whenever "any Glut of OCCURRENCES happen." There would probably be six or eight gluts a year, Monaghan guessed...