The Press: A Week of Grievances

Friday, Sep. 06, 1968

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One night, Hefner forsook a week-long party at his mansion to observe some night's rioting in the company of Columnist Lerner and Cartoonist Jules Feiffer. A car screeched to a halt alongside and disgorged six cops. "Move it!" they commanded. "That's just what we're doing," said Hefner. Whereupon a cop gave him a smart rap across the butt. More indignant than injured, Hefner held a press conference next day, swore that the attack had moved him to get out more and get more involved in useful causes. That may have been the worst mistake the Chicago cops made all week.

^{* Leonard H. Goldenson, president of ABC; Bailey K. Howard,
president of Field Enterprises (Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News); Dr.
Frank Stanton, president of CBS; Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los
Angeles Times; Julian Goodman, president of NBC; Arthur Ochs
Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; Hedley Donovan, editor in
chief of Time Inc.; Katharine Graham, president of the Washington Post
Co., which owns Newsweek.}