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working like beavers to mold
the news to the advantage Of
the administrator is frighten-
ing. On the other hand, I
don't believe the danger is as
great as some of the critics
have stated. But Just to be
safe, let's be wary and combine
our efforts in the direction of
the free flow of 'unmanaged'
news"
John o. Hjelle, editor, Bis
Marck IN. Dak.) Tribune-"I
don't know that it is much
worse than it has been before.
However. there have been times
when it not only managed the
news but has attempted to
deceive. We need to be vigilant
against such practices, but ]
don't think 1t is something
that we can legislate against"
Homer p. PickreIl, editor, the
Albuquerque IN. Mex Journal
we are so remote from
Washington we don't have any
specific instances Of managing
the news. But I think 1t is
something that has been grow
ing. And while there might be
instances Of where editors have
attempted to manage the
news, it is nothing like the
administration has attempted
to do. The heads Of all Gov
eminent agencies should make
themselves available as news
sources and we should have
few, If any, public relations Of
ficers."
Kenneth r. West, editor, the
Lansing (Mich.) State Journal,
q false assumption to
say that newspapers them
selves have attempted unfair
ly to manage the news on oc-
casions. ! do not think the
Kennedy administration has
made much Of a success in any
attempts to manage the news.
But I am against any such
practices in any shape or form.
Unfortunately, calling news
part Of weaponry puts us in
the same class Of countries that
the news all the time.
That is a mark of communism,
not that Of q democracy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-18

administrations. I think Mr.
Sylvester's assistant Defense
Secretary Arthur Sylvester)
statement that the administra-
ton would not hesitate to lie to
the press was an unfortunate
thing"
Emmett DedmOn, executive
editor, Chicago Sun-Times-
II do not think the real issue
is one Of managing news, but
Of controlling news sources
What we object to is the re-
striction placed on our abili-
ties to go after the news on
our own initiative.
Il think we newspaper do on
occasion manage the news.
Down in our country, segrega-
ton and Indignation are ex-
plosive subjects. We do not
play those stories in their true
proportions. I don't think news
papers in Chicago can afford
to play up the racial situation
there. And I don't think you
people in Washington can af-
ford to, either"
Don C. Shoemaker, editor,
Miami Herald - Were In
charge of the news and the ad-
ministration isn't. It's the
job to run the
newspaper.
I'm the Kennedy admins
tration, it's not so much with
holding news - which can be
expected in national emergen-
cies - but the coloring Of 1t.
There's much more Of this
than in past administrations
The Eisenhower administration
was pretty good at it. Mr.. Ken
nedy's is much better"
Grover Cleveland Hall, editor,
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
THE issue Is not one Of man.
aging the news. but Of lying
to the American people. We
all manage the news to some
extend, but in this case, what
the Kennedy administration is
doing is lying"
Ernest Grueymard, managing
editor, Baton Rouge (La.)
State Times - "The thought
Of an estimated 5000 Govern
ment information specialists
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Nations Editors Divided on Issue
Of White House News Manaqino

Newspaper editors here for
their annual convention dis
agree on whether news is
managed" in the Kennedy
administration.
In a poll taken Of more than
a dozen editors attending the
convention of the American
Society Of Newspaper Editors
at the Hotel Statler, nearly half
expressed belief that govern
ments have historically con-
trolled the news.
They differed in the extent
to which they believe news
is managed" now, and whether
President Kennedy's admin
istration is more sophisticated
or amateurish in its handling
Of news flow.
The question asked of the
editors was:
THE Kennedy administra-
ton has been accused of man.
aging the news and Pierre
Salinger, the White House press
secretary, has retaliated with
the charge that newspapers
themselves unfairly manage
the news on occasion. What
Is your feeling on this whole
controversy"
These were the editors an
swers:
William B. Dickinson, man
aging editor, Philadelphia Bull
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have always
managed the news and will
continue to do so. It Is the
duty Of newspapers to get the
facts"
Martin s. Hayden, editor,
Detroit News, a former WASH
ington correspondent for his
newspaper THE controversy
has q little nonsense on both
sides. I don't think the Ken
nedy administration manages
the news any more than any
other administration has done.
As for editors, they are sup
posed to manage the news, Just
as President Kennedy is sup
posed to manage the country"
Herbert 6. Klein, editor, the
San Diego Union, former press
secretary for ex-Vice President
Nixon-"There is no question
but that the Kennedy admins
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EDITORS
Continued From PAGE Al

Continued From Page Al
here. Nearly 500 editors and
guests from all over the coun-
try have registered for the
convention.
President Kennedy, who will
address the editors at a lunch
con meeting tomorrow, will lead
a group Of administration Of
ficials, including Secretary of
State Rusk. who will speak to
the newspapermen during the
convention. Former Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, the 1860 Republi-
can presidential candidate, will
give his party's appraisal Of the
Kennedy administration at a
luncheon meeting Saturday, at
which he will discuss, among
other things. the Cuban
problem.
Senator Heating called on the
President TO develop "a clear
and consistent program of ac-
ton" for driving the Commu-
nists out Of Cuba.
Such a program with "a more
candid disclosure Of facts -
the American public" the Sem
ator said. would serve to re-
store bipartisan support behind
the President In Gealing with
the Cuban problem.
Bipartisan Challenge
THE United States Govern
ment." he said, has been as
puzzled. as bewildered and as
uncertain OF how 10 deal with
Castro and the Communist
takeover OF this island as have
been the American people and
perhaps more so. As a result,
the Cuban issue has become the
most serious challenge 10 BIZ
partisanship in the last two
decades"
While urging a program that
would draw bipartisan support,
Senator Heating challenged the
administration on several par
ticulars.
He said he understood that
while surveillance was being
conducted 10 make sure that
weapons, personnel and other
tools OF subversion we're not
shipped out Of Cuba for use
elsewhere in Latin America,
''some Navy ships have specific
orders not 10 searchlight
smaller vessels that are con-
SANITY moving in the Cuban
and Caribbean waters at
night" He said that none Of
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men have been forceful in their
denials that the public has
been denied legitimate infor-
nation because Of news man.
agement.'" the Colhurn report
said.
"They have been less success
full in refuting hard evidence
that some Of their information
was purposely distorted for
purposes of propaganda decep-
ton. e..
IF the country should estab-
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lish the Use Of news as q weap-
on Of national policy policy
OF manipulation and deception
we will have undermined the
bedrock Of free society.
Instead Of deceiving an
enemy, who will naturally be
skeptical and suspicious Of any
statement we make. we will
destroy the confidence Of our
own people in the integrity Of
our Government"
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By the Assoclat led Prem

A Federal policy Of news
manipulation and deception
would destroy the confidence
Of our own people in the In
tegrity Of our Government" q
committee Of the American So
ciety Of Newspaper Editors says.
The society's board Of direc-
tors received this critical report
on Government news policies
from the ASNE Freedom Of In
formation Committee headed
by Editor John H. Colburn of
the Wichita (Kans) Eagle and
Beacon.
The report charged the ad-
ministration with distortion Of
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EDITORS
Clear Policy on Cuba
Locking, Keoting Says

these ships is ever searched by
United States patrols and
asked:
How can we hope to get
evidence Of support Of subver-
sion II we don't investigate
these small-scale but yer nu-
merous operations2 The only
name I can think of for this
policy is out Of sight, out of
mind"
Senator Heating also said
Russian language broadcasts
were not beamed to Soviet
personnel in Cuba. He said that
the State Department played
a key role" In blocking broad
casts that Radio Liberty tan
independent operation) had
proposed.
VOA Disputes Charge
Asked about this. Voice Of
America officials said today
the VOA broadcasts two Rus
Language programs Of news
and news analysis 10 Cuba each
day. Each program lasts 80
minutes.
On the politically explosive
issue Of restrictions on raids by
Cuban exiles. Senator Heating
said he concurred with the
President In not permitting
such operations from United
States soil. But he appeared TO
question restrictions imposed
on such raids from unpatrolled
Caribbean islands not under
United States Jurisdiction.
while I do not believe that
hit-and-run tactics will drive
Khrushchev out Of Cuba" Sem
ator Heating said. 1T is impor-
tant for the United States
make clear what II is doing
TO drive Khrushchev out"
Sees Both Blunders
The New York Republican
said that both parties have
made serious blunders In Cuba
and must share responsibility
not onIy for the conditions
which now exist. but for the
lack Of any consistent policy
for coping with them" Then
he added:
while there may be no BIZ
partisan agreement on what 10
do about Cuba, there most GER
tainly is bipartisan blame for
the situation which has devel-
oped."
] Without specifically men,
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may be said to represent the
core of 0rtega's thought in
art and literature, serves as a
key to a fuller understanding
of his work. 0rtega offers
profound insights on Mediter-
ranean culture.
A PREFACE TO THE
FAERIE QUEENE. BY Ora
ham Hough. Morton: $1.55O
A discussion Of the structure
OF Spencer's book and an out
line Of his allegory.
STORIES OF GOD. By
Rainier Maria RiIke. Translat-
ed by M. D. Herter Norton.
Morton; $3.50 A collection
Of what the author called
youthful fantasies busted
with transferring God from
the sphere of rumor into the
realm Of direct and daily ex-
periencing."
THE BIBLE, RELIGION,
AND THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS. By Donald E.
Boles. COLLIER; $1.500 A dis
cusSion Of one of the most
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
Gabrielle and Henry;
A Story of True Love

ance Of Henry's conversion.
When he was promulgating
the great document Of reli-
gious liberty, the Edict of
Nantes, it was Gabrielle who
coaxed the most adamant
Huguenots and Catholics to
concurrence. She accompa-
MED him on his campaigns;
she empded her jewel-coffers
to finance his war against
Philip II of Spain.
UnquestiOned Loyalty
In Henry's eyes she could
do no wrong. Nor can she in
the eyes of her biographer,
whose style is not, mfortu-
nately, equal to his advocacy.
Henry legitimized by letters
patent their three children; he
was at the point Of marrying
her when she died of childbed
fever at the age Of 26.
Mr.. Lewis admires Ga
brielle almost as much as
Henry, but he has told her
story in pedestrian somewhat
sentimental fashion. Her best
testimonial comes from Hen
rvs sister, who wrote in a let
ter to her brother: "She is
loyal to you beyond all loyal
ty, sincere beyond all sinceri-
ty, loving beyond all loving,
and asks for nothing but your
love, which you have already
given her in ample measure. "
MARY McGR0RY.
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editor, Marianne Moore, and
her chief assistant, Kenneth
Burke, cherished the ideal
that the magazine would be
not merely a purveyor Of the
greatest art, but be a master
piece of art itself. To what ex-
tent editorial genius in typog-
raphy, layout, and department
talization supplemented the
even rarer genius of finding
good material is hard to say,
but the success Of the latter
effort is indisputable. At 2
cents a word for prose and
$40 a page for poe t.
ny, the magazine collected
for its $4,000 readers a roster
of contributors that is simply
breathtaking - Anderson, FL
lot, Marianne Moore, Cum
mings, Pound, Joyce, Yeats,
Proust, Stein, Mann, Won Hof-
mannsthal, Russell. Please,
Claudel, Ortega y Gasset,
Maxwell Bodenheim, and 9TH
ers that would make up two
more such lists equally i'm
pressive. Some Of the pieces
in the anthology have become
well known individually, but
there is sufficient new materi-
al to gladden. any heart.
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"Main Sequence" stars, each
probably controlling a plane
tary system Of its own, there
may beat a minimum guess
1900 planets which are
inhabited" He adds: 1.-THE
search for other civilizations
has a'chance to succeed, but
only if we improve our equip
ment and move it out from
under the blanket of our at
moSphere."
Willy Ley, author not only
of this urgently needed and
deeply satisfying book but
also of Rockets, Missiles,
and Space Travel" is a man
to be reverentially listened to
on the subject of both aStrono-
my and "the search for other
civilizations"
l find him excitingly hope
inspiring.
He inspires us to hope that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08

perhaps we won't have to
wait 353 years for a night
comparable to that apocalyp-
tic night of 353 years ago-the
night Of January z, 1910.
1t was on that night that an
early watcher Of the skies
named Galileo-with, in his
own words, incredible de-
light"-pointed upward at the
vault Of heaven, for the first
time, an instrument which,
"sparing neither labor nor ex-
pense," he had made with his
own hands.
1t was improved equip
ment" all right. It was, for
the special needs Of astrono-
my, an improvement on a
miracle of nature-the mira
Gle of the human eye. It was
the telescope.
CHARLES COOKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
What Do the Sky
Watchers See?

WATCHERS OF THE SKIES An Informal History Of Astron-
omy From Babylon to the Space Age. By Willie Levy.
CThe Viking Press; $500
like this book like exceedingly and exceedingly
grateful for it.
To make clear why my reaction is Deep must tell
you first about something appalling that happened Tokyo
But before tell you about that must mention that have
two hobbies My primary hobby is muscpayng the piano
for pleasure my secondary hobby is astronomy.
Now them
approaches "oppoSionS of Mars to the earth World
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08

gether, although many lesser
magazines have been so used,
cannot be explained, for "A
Dial Miscellany" is an excel
lent book of fiction, poetry,
criticism, and pictures.
It was the belief Of Scofield
Thayer and James Sibley
Watson, two wealthy young
men who took over the maya
zine in 1920, that, as Mr.. Was
SerStrom says, civilization
might be saved after all-not
by democracy but by art.
This view Of art as the best
way to perceive and reveal
radical truth, the belief that
art alone can help men to
perfect society, I have called
the prophetic imagination. "
IT e subject Of WaSser-
strom's companion book to
the anthology is the nantes
tationS and effects of this pro-
phetic imagination to 1862
The founders, and later the
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controversial topics in Ameri-
ca today, the role of religion
in schools. The author dis
cusses the history of the sep
aration Of church and state
from the time of the founding
fathers to the most recent Su-
preme Court ruling.
ASIA IN THE MODERN
WORLD. Edited by Helen G.
Matthew. Mentor; rs cents.)
Experts in the field of Asian
studies discuss the problems
facing modern Asia and her
unique and increasingly domi-
nant position in the world
economy. Each contributes a
chapter devoted to his field of
study.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08

and it would be no fun for
fungi. Earth-type mammals,
or life as we know it,"
would have one hell of a time
existing-indeed could not
exiSt-on the barely detecta-
bic amounts Of oxygen pres
ent in the Marian atmos-
phere.
Therefore, since 1956-if
only because hell hath no fury
like an appalled, hobbyist-I
have doubly blessed all ex-
perts on astronomy who have
written, are writing, or ever
will write good books for lay
men on the NobleSt Science.
Willy Legs Watchers Of
the Skies" is super-good.
He starts out with what he
c alls "proto-astronomy"-
painting a vivid word-picture
of cavemen bordering, fasci-
mated. the occasional dra-
matte conjunctions, on the
horizon, Of Mercury, Venus,
the sickle moon, and the
sinking sun.
Throughout, he chronicles
true to the wonderful title
Keats gave him-the activi-
ties Of the giants among the
watchers Of the skies, from
the unknown genius who
wrote the famous 'Venus
tablet in Hammurabi's
Babylon In the 18th century
BE-, down the ages to to-
days great Harlow Shapley
touching upon, as he moves
from century to century, Arr
starchus, Copernicus, Calico,
K epler, Newton, Herschel
senior, HerSchel junior, Per-
cival Lowell, Jeans, Edding-
ton, HubbeI, Einstein.
And throughout, he chroni-
cles, with equivalent loving
care, the glories, mysteries,
and challenges Of what the
watchers watched.
He describes the rare Tran
sits Of Mercury across the
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EDITORIAL PAGE
DAILY COLUMN

The editorial page fea-
ture, "a Book for Today"
this week:
MONDAY: "The Winds
Of Revolution: Latin-Amer-
lea Today-and Tomor-
row." by Tad Szulc. (Prae-
ger.)
TUESDAY: "WaIt Whit
mans New York, From
Manhattan to Montauk,"
edited by Henry NJ. Christ
man. (Macmillan.)
WEDNESDAY: Social
ism Re-Examined," by Nor
man Thomas. Norton.)
THURSDAY: THE En-
ameled Wishbone and Other
Touchstones," by Robert
Henderson. (Macmillan.)
FRIDAY: Books and
the Cultural Center"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-08
An Old Magazine
As q New Book
A DIAL MISCELLANY. Edit

A DIAL MISCELLANY. Edit
ed by William Wasser-
strom. (SyracuSe Univer-
Sity Press; So
THE TIME OF THE DIAL.
By William WasSerStrom.
Syracuse University
Press; $4.95.)
Why The Dial, considered
by some to be the finest liter
airy and art magazine ever to
have been published, ceased
to appear in 1929 after nine
successful years william Was
serstrom, editor Of the pres
ent anthology and author Of
a companion volume about
the magazine and its in
fluence, believes was that the
four people responsible for its
perfection each found new in
terests and had no inch-
nation to pass their creation
to other hands. Why until now
no anthology has been put to-
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is to have your life hopeless
ly complicated. but it is not
essentially unbelievable or
horrible. Likewise, when Lam
dOlfi as the biographer of the
Russian writer Gogol tells us
that his subject has as his
wife a girl named Caracas
Qike the Venezuelan city,
who Is made entirely Of rub
Der and is blown up like a
pneumatic tire with a pump,
it is not the monStrouSnesS of
the situation that impreSses
him but fear that we may
think Gogol "vile." but the
fact remains that, as a
biographer, / have certain
firm obligations. Believing as
/ do that every bit of informa-
ton about so lofty a genius
will turn out to be of value to
us and to future generations, l
annot conceal something
which in any case has no
hope of being judged fairly
and wisely until the end Of
time. Moreover, what right
have we to condemn? Is it
given to us to know, not only
what intimate needs, but
even what higher and wider
ends may have been served
by those very deeds Of a lofty
genius which perchance may
appear to US vile?"
This could indeed be very
convincing Kafka, and Lam
dolfi creates his atmosphere
and devises his matter-of-fact
situations in story after story
-"GOgol'S Wife," as good as
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wide excitement over this
important astronomical event
was conSiderable-my own
excitement taking the, form Of
pointing my little telescope
toward Mars every clear
highland l was therefore all
the more appalled, by an
editorial which appeared on
September IL, 1856, in the
English language newspaper,
Japan Times" published in
Tokyo.
This well-meant editorial
was written by an American
journalist who, like me, was
then living in Japan, and, on
the side, doing odd jobs Of
writing for the English edi-
tons of various Japanese
newspapers. This particular
job was indeed odd.
The editorial was entitled
"Mars-A Challenged"
The writer called Mars "the
big red star" Mars is a plan
ct, not a star, as you know,
and more orange than red. He
referred to its ''twinkling."
Planets do not twinkle, as you
also know, although stars do.
He said that Mars period
cally catches up with the
earth" It is an elementary
fact Of celestial mechanics
that the earth, being nearer
the sun, has a faster orbital
speed than Mars, and there
fore periodically catches up
with Mars. And he concluded
by saying that "our wise men
believe that Mars climate is
capable Of supporting life as
we know it." Our wise
men," viz, our astronomers,
believe no such thing. Accord
ing to recent thermocouple
measurements made at the
Mount Wilson Observatory,
the temperature Of Mars
fluctuates some 200 Fahren-
heR degrees during every
Marian day, hitting "a low Of
$50 degrees below zero. Lii
chens wouldn't like it there,
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novelists, who have left US
vivid descriptions of the 18th
century upper class. ''But only
the more rabid anti-Stratford-
ians would maintain the ex-
IRENE position here attrib-
uted to them. Mr.. Quen-
nell weakens his argument by
citing the three Frenchmen,
for all, though bourgeois,
were men Of exceptionally
extensive worldly experience.
Then Mr.. Quennen remarks
on the great difficulty of per-
petrating the hoax of palming
off poSthumously the Stratford
player as the poet. Anti-Strat-
fordians, too, are staggered
by the difficulty. But they
avow that the burden Of proof
that the two Shakespeares
were the same person lies
with the StratfOrdians, since
there is no evidence dating
from Shakespeare's lifetime
that anyone ever thought the
two men were one. A little is
known about each Of the two
men, but the idea that they
were a Jekyll and Hyde same
after one and perhaps both
had died. Mr.. Quennell cites
Heminge and Condell, to his
purpose, but certainly he
must agree that the postum
nous First Folio those men
prepared, or helped to pre-
pare, is in many things con-
Trajectory and unreliable.
Thereupon, after having
shrugged off the anti-Strat-
fordians ina couple of pages,
Mr.. Quennell tells a life Of
Shakespeare qualifie d by
probably" presumably"
and must have" It is a live
ly presentation, in which the
poet is brought into relief
against good accounts Of the
London stage, the court, and
the life Of the city.
Mr.. Quennell comments on
each Of the poems and plays
more or less in chronological
order. His treatment is char
acterized less by original in
sights than by the infectious
enthusiasm he brings to his ex-
position. The advanced and
specialized essay he leaves to
others since it would be out of
place in a general survey, and
provides a well-balanced and
often provoking introduction
to the works.