With new money in the bank to finance ambitious plans for a "new" paper (TIME, Sept. 23), the New York Herald Tribune suggested on its editorial page last week what an editorial page should be about. "Reading most newspaper editorials these days," wrote the new chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore it."
Whether the page would live...
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