Editor Murray liemptort of The New Republic Immigrants' Son, Publisher Newhouse,
$15-Million Journalism School
Traces Career of Karl Hess, Barry Goldwater's Builds
SYRACUSE—What makes Sam- ample, integrationist Newhouse
my run? In the journalism world, turns the other cheek when the
Speech-Writer, Formerly of Mercury Staff
many have often asked that ques- Birmingham News condones segre-
"One earlier secessionist was tion about Samuel I. Newhouse, gation.
Murray Kempton, one of the Research is a smear group,' Hess
owner of 19 newspapers
Several hundred publishers,
editors of the New Republic, in a smiled. "But this piece is better Ralph de Toledano, who quit as 69-year-old
and several magazines and televi- editors and public officials at-
leading article in the magazine's than my memory, and it will help a contributing editor in 1955 with
sion
stations.
tended the ceremonies Wednes-
Aug. 8 issue, entitled "Karl Hess— me answer. They say that the Anti- the charge that the Mercury 'flirts
On Wednesday, President John- day night, when President John-
Goldwater Finds His Sorensen," Defamation League found that by with anti-Semites,' and created by
traces the background of the man 1959 the Mercury, under Maguire, that act one of those vacancies on son helped dedicate the new school son received an honorary doctor
who • "wrote the draft of Barry had become the most important the Mercury masthead, which were of journalism at Syracuse Univer- of laws degree from Syracuse
sity, part of an eight-acre complex University. Gov . Rockefeller was
Goldwater's acceptance speech as anti-Semitic publication in the thereafter filled by Karl Hess
country, and that T had quit before among others. Toledano reported called the Newhouse Communica- main speaker.
Republican nominee."
that he had been told that Maguire tions Center, for which the pub-
The $3,900,000 journalism build-
The article begins by quoting then. Actually I think they may had called him a `Jew boy.'
lisher has donated $15,000,000.
be
wrong;
they
say
I
left
the
mast-
ing will be followed by other build-
the following from an article
Newhouse, born to poor Jewish ings in the quadrangle housing tel-
" `Oh,' says Hess, 'Maguire was
written by Hess in the May, 1954, head - in 1958. I think I left well
before then. I decided to leave. not the sort of man who would Russian immigrants, in Bayonne, evision-radio facilities, audio-visual
American Mercury, with which
when Maguire rewrote a piece of ever use a term like 'Jew boy.' It N. J., began his career at age 13 center and the Syracuse University
Hess then was associated as one of
mine on the Institute for Advanced was just that he began seeing a as an office boy to an attorney lo- Press, a sight-and-sound library and
the editors:
Zionist under every bed. Of course, cated in the Bayonne Times office an institute for advanced study of
"It would not be America really Study quite badly.'
any kind of anti-Semitism is no building.
communications.
"That
would
be
in
July
of
1956,
If it did not produce men who
He studied law in Newark and
good but Maguire's sort was the
when
Karl
Hess'
name
appeared
suddenly tire of palaver and reach
kind I would least imagine would was admitted to the bar on his 21st
for the rifle on the wall, to use under an article on Robert Oppen- be harmful, because it was so ob- birthday. The attorney who had Hebrew Corner
themselves or to hand to the heimer and the Institute for Ad- scure. You know, charts and all been his first employer, Hyman
vanced Study at Princeton. The
Underdog who needs it."
sorts of talk about the illuminati; Lazarus, received a 51 per cent in-
According to the New Republic article contains the customary ac- I only went out to his house and terest in the Bayonne Times as
editor, when the text of the speech counts of fraternization with the got the treatment once. He had a payment on a bad debt. He asked
prepared by Hess was handed to Communist conspiracy by various whole bound set of the Dearborn Newhouse to manage it until it
This year Dr. Yuval Neeman, a
Goldwater, he said, when he read of the Institute's fellows. But there Independent. He had this idea of could be sold.
young man from Israel, gained world
were
odd
little
digressions;
one
fame. He began to study theoretical
the two sentences about "extrem-
reprinting the whole thing. Ac-
Soon, however, Newhouse had physics only seven years ago. Still,
ism" and "moderation": "I like such reports that. on social occa- tually I think the trouble was his the paper running in the black. Yuval Neeman has chances of becom-
sions at the Institute, Albert Ein-
ing the first Israeli scientist to receive
that."
wife—beautiful woman incidentally In 1922. he expanded his inter- the Nobel Prize. Dr. Yuval Neeman
Kempton traces Hess' back- stein 'is mentioned as brightening —she was a white Russian and ests, borrowing money from his found the particle that was missing to
the scientists Working on the atom.
ground as director of special proj- considerably when the subject you know what they're like. When family and joining Lazarus in This
particle is called—"Omega Minus."
ects for the American Institute of turns from science to Zionism, a I left that night, I'd already de- the purchase of the Staten Island The greatest physicists in the world de-
clared
that Dr. Neeman's and Prof.
subject
dear
to
his
heart,
as
the
Public Policy Research, as edi-
cided to quit. No, I don't know Advance. He bought out Lazarus Gelman's findings are the most im-
torial assistant to "The Institute Times points out, throughout his when it was or when I quit.'
portant
nuclear physics during the
in 192'7, and from then on his past few in years.
for Strategic Studies," a subsidiary career at the Institute.' The most
empire
grew
steadily.
Dr.
Neeman
is now only 38; however
"In March, 1956, Hess led the
to a third institute —the American powerful single figure among the
he already has a rich past. He was
Mercury
with
a
piece
captioned
Among
the
papers
he
owns
are
Institute's
trustees
is
identified
as
born
in
Tel-Aviv
and studied at the
Enterprise Institute. The Institute
the Harrisburg Patriot, St. Louis "Herzlia" secondary school. He gradu-
for Strategic Studies is commanded `Senator Herbert H. Lehman, legis- `Your Checklist on the UN.'
ated this school at the age of fifteen
" 'The kindly clergyman who Globe-Democrat, New Orleans and entered the "Technicum" and re-
by retired Admiral Arleigh Burke lator, international financier, and
a diploma as an electrical engi-
avowed
enemy
of
the
sort
of
secu-
speaks
of the UN as a virtually Times-Picayune and Birmingham ceived
and fully reflects his sense that the
neer. During the War of Independence
News.
He
awns
a
66
per
cent
in-
rity
system
that
lifted
Oppen-
he
was
an outstanding commander.
holy trust probably doesn't have
trouble with our foreign policy is
terest in the magazine publishing Yuval Neem.-in remained in the army
that politicians playing soldier have heimer's clearance.' The word the foggiest notion that the UN houses of Conde Nast and Street after the war of Independence, it was
after Sinai operation that he
pushed the solders who want to `Zionist' translates 'Jew,' and the has rejected God at its front & Smith, as well as three radio sta- only
decided to Ludy physics. He went to
play politician into the shadows." phrase 'international financier' as door,' it said. The Mercury's tions and six television stations.
England to study and at the same time
`rich Jew' in the half-consciousness readers meet innocents like that
was a military attache' at the Israel
Karl Hess' Interior'
in London Half the time he
Newhouse admits that his suc- Embassy
"Habit has made Hess agreeable of the audience at which Russell every day, Hess suggested, and
worked at the Embassy and half the
cess
as
a
publisher
is
due
to
bus-
Maguire
aimed.
But
in
no
other
time
he
studied
at the university. In
list,
category
by
cate-
here
was
a
to any visiting journalist," Kemp-
iness acumen rather than editorial the year of 1961 Yuval Neeman re-
ceived his doctorate for his thesis on
ton states. He adds that "there is contribution of his to the Mercury gory, of the true facts to set them
genius. Press critic A. J. Liebling, "Omega Minus"; but only this year it
strangely little from which to did Hess cater in any such detail straight."
once described Newhouse as a was found that Yuval Neeman's theory
judge Karl Hess' interior, except to Maguire's obsession; and it is
In his analysis of Goldwater's "journalistic chiffoner", which is is true.
only
fair
to
assume
that
his
mem-
Only after one hundred thousand
by the dubious standard of asso-
speech-writer, Kempton says of French for rag picker.
laboratory photos was the missing par-
ciation .. . " The only articles he ory can be trusted in its assertion Hess that "his mind boils" down
ticle of the atom found, called "Omega
Other critics have said his only Minus." This is how Yuval Neeman of
had signed are those he had writ- that any anti-Semitic expressions to notions of order and of discip-
-Israel gained fame as one of the most
ten for American Mercury from in the Institute article were Ma- line and his blood beats to a wild interest is in the cash register. important scientists in the world.
They condemn the complete free-
guire's
violation
of
what
he
claims
the spring of 1954 until the sum-
disordered tune . . . It is, without dom of editorial expression he al-
Translation of Hebrew column
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith
mer of 1957. Kempton thereupon was an originally innocent manu- straining- to judge anyone's in- lows for all his editors. For ex-
Jerusalem
proceeds to describe the Mercury script.
terior, quite enough to absorb the
Hess
remem-
-oe,'
"
'It
was
terril
background, association and poli-
fact that it took only four days in
bers. 'The wife of one of my best San Francisco to give up a Republi-
cies and the views of Hess:
"The Mercury then was pub- friends was Oppcnheimer's secre- can candidate for President whose
lished by Russell Maguire, an oil tary. When the piece came out, speeches were written by a man
speculator and wartime machine I didn't even recognize it. It was whom a journalist has to ask why
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gun processor. When Hess first a terrible thing; I suppose I should he went on writing for a magazine
began to write for it, Maguire still have quit then. But I didn't know whose publisher could not contain
had a learner's permit from the just what good it would do. And Ms possession by the specter of the
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pelled to call his Mercury 'the Institute thing was written earlier. Goldwater called not upon the com-
single most important anti-Semitic
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publication at the present time." than I should have. A lot of people publican Party but upon the armed
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