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 the country. There was an overnight disintegration of a distinguished staff when many of its Guild members did not cross the stereotypers' picket line. (Only about half of the Guild members eventually returned to their jobs.) The list of those who left is studded with names that literally made the news in Portland: Wallace Turner and William Lambert, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nieman Fellows, are now with The New York Times and Time, respectively, in California bureaus. Robert A. Lee, one of Portland's top news editor, is with The New York Times Western Edition. He was the Reporter's publisher in its first month.

Some left the newsroom for other pursuits. A former Nieman Fellow is now a college public-relations man; an outstanding city desk man is an executive with a municipal agency; a prize-winning education editor teaches journalism, and one of the city's most promising young reporters has become a public-information aide in Washington.

The loss has not been just in personnel. Discerning readers note a seeming decline of vitality in the two older dailies. And the strike seems to have given the Oregonian and Journal a compulsive anti-union attitude—all the more apparent because the two papers had been notably fair in their coverage of labor news.

Partisans of the Reporter, who are keenly aware that it keeps Portland from having an entirely absentee-owned press, see in the young and independent newspaper a hope of restoring the former energies of the city's journalism. But the Reporter has many bread-and-butter problems of survival to solve before it can become a beacon of excellence.

PHILIP N. LAWSSON, 21, of St. Albans, VE, siaff photographer for the Vermont Sunday News, holds the esposed roll of Elm and a ripped leather case which he claims was the work of Sen. Ted Kennedy after Lawson took an unpesed pleture of the senator. Lawson claims the incident oreurred outside The Lodge, at Smugglers' Noteh YUPI Photo) Loeb Asks Ted Apologize, Pay for Damaging Camera Before taking legal action nection with the incident which between Sen Kennedy and against Sen. Kennedy for de loccurred at Stowe, Vt. last Photographer Lawson Without struction of a news photographweekend by the fact that the exception they have all found er's im and damage to his 'senator yesterday denied that that Lawson's account of what camern, William Loeb, publish be had forcibly snatched the happened is completely accu er of the Vermoit Sunday News news camera frm Photograph rate. Surely Sen Kennedy and other New England news er Phil Lawson's hands. Ken should have known that the apers ouedy Page-one item, Union Leader, February 26 grabbed his camera, damaging the flash attachment, and carried the camera into the lobby of the lodge, where he exposed the film. While the senator was removing the camera from its case, Lawson added, the stitching of the case burst open on one side. Kennedy's version differed in details. His office said that the senator had merely asked Lawson not to use the picture- and the photographer "was very cooperative and handed over the film." "Did Teddy Grab Ask?" was the line in the Binghamton Manchester: Teddy v. Loeb (New York) Press, and thai scemed the critical ques- tion. Newspapers generally carried wire-service stories that gave approximately equal space to the conflicting versions of the incident. There was no such indecision, however, in Man- Outside a ski lodge at Stowe, Vermont, on Febru- ary 24, a photographer for the l'ermont Sunday News snapped an unposed-and unwelcome ture of Senator Edward M. ("Teddy") Kennedy, who was on a skiing holiday with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and their wives. What happened next is a matter of dispute. According to the photographer, Philip Lawson, Ted Kennedy chester, New Hampshire-at least, not in the ac- counts of the Manchester Union Leader, whose publisher, William Loeb, also publishes the Vermont Sunday News and is an outspoken adversary of the Kennedy administration. The Union Leader's first story on February 25, running under a three-column, page-one head ("Angry Ted Kennedy Clashes With Vt. News Cameraman") made no mention of the Kennedy's denial that he had snatched the camera. pic- 40 Columbia Journalism Review