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...five men who publish the monthly Menard (Ill.) Time are serving a total of 130 years for felonies ranging from statutory rape to murder. Each workday, in the interests of some 2,350 convict readers, they troop in prison dungarees to the Menard Time* office to practice journalism behind the walls of the Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard's Editor David R. Saunders has had job offers from several newspapers and a wire service. But it will be a while before he goes to press for pay: he has 32 years yet to serve...
Editor at Large. The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside. Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
...Editor Turner Catledge and Assistant M.E. Theodore M. Bernstein went imperturbably through the task of putting out a paper every day, writing copy and headlines, dummying the pages and then sending the work to the morgue instead of the composing room. When the strike is over, the Times will publish a condensed edition bringing history up to date with two pages of news for each day it did not publish. The Times even had a reporter covering the strike, obligingly set up a news desk to feed stories to New York's 17 radio and 7 television stations that...
Four consecutive weeks of Catholic propaganda in your magazine is enough. We've had it! We Protestants pay our subscription just like the others. Your masthead nowhere states that you publish a Roman Catholic magazine. Good thing this isn't 1960; Candidate Kennedy wouldn't have a fighting chance with all this provocative Roman fuss...
Author Turner's most savage anecdotes are from the annals of court medicine. In a day when only God could save a King, a typical court quack was John of Gaddesden (probably Chaucer's "verrey parfit practisour"). John went so far as to publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less...