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“Journalism can
never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must
speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph
and the signs of horror are still in the air.”
—Henry Anatole
Grunwald (1922-2005), diplomat, journalist and former editor of Time, Inc., in Time Magazine's 60th anniversary issue, Fall 1983
• Editorial Comment: Speak up, newshounds.
PeezPix by Ted Pease
Over the Bar
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