Magazines: Sophisticated Muckraking

Red and white I'M FOR WALLY signs began to circulate outside the oak-paneled Atlanta courtroom, where former University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts's $10 million libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post was in its second week of testimony. Whether the Georgia football fans in the jury box agreed with the Georgia football fans waving the signs, would only come clear with this week's verdict.But witness after witness had already handed down an unofficial decision. For the manner in which it put together last spring's "The Story of a College Football Fix" — an article that accused...

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