Press: Dissected Corps

One thing that bothered serious, 29-year-old Leo Calvin Rosten all the while he was working for a doctorate of political science & economy at the University of Chicago was the nation's lack of critical interest in the Washington press corps. It seemed ironic to Mr. Rosten that "we have been more concerned with the talents of men who incarcerate animals in public pounds, than with those of the men who have the license to disseminate information about the political order under which we live."

Hopeful of mending this situation, Mr. Rosten applied for...

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