The Press: Who's Loony?

The Washington Times-Heraid's vitriolic, red-haired Publisher Cissie Patterson, 61, who publishes the biggest but not the best paper in the capital, has had insanity on her mind recently. Last week she spread her thoughts across eight columns, under the heading CRAZY—CRAZY LIKE FOXES. They added up to some of the most vicious personal slander since the days when all journalism was yellow.

She had once visited an insane asylum, she wrote, and "for a while we had fun cataloguing the better-known 'liberals' according to the various types" she had seen there. Examples:

¶ "Henry...

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