A writin', fightin' editor is Fred Sullens of Jackson, Miss.'s Daily News. He is the kind of newspaperman who once said of a politician who threatened him with physical violence: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it—if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the...
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