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That's the question exactly. In your second interview of your earlier series, I believe you described the mechanism of consultation. I wonder if you would say a few words as to how it has boiled down now with the new publisher. Do you have a meeting with him once a week or do the galleys just go up?

I will gladly go into that. As a matter of fact, I should have said in describing the discussions that we had, he made this very suggestion. He thought that we probably ought to meet formally more or less with one or the other executives in the managerial side of the paper-namely, Mr. Bancroft, the executive vice president, with whom I'm also very good friends-and myself and my assistant editor just with this in mind. But I resisted this idea, and, as a matter of fact, we're not doing it. I don't feel that we ought to formalize this at all. I think that we should do what I have done in the past, except perhaps more so. And I think I am conscious of doing the following that I am about to describe more than I used to, although I have always done it from the day that I became editor of the page. What I am talking about is simply this: calling specific attention of the publisher to any issue or any given editorial before it is published if I think (a) it represents any kind of new policy of any importance; or (b) if the editorial is, in my judgment, likely to get us into serious trouble with any group of readers. I did refer to this policy before of my doing this. And I think that since my discussions I probably have been doing this more frequently, but I've always done it. And I think this is the way to operate. I take the responsibility of calling these things to the publisher's attention before they appear.

Now, in addition to that, there is the added safeguard of his getting all the editorial copy. But in all fairness to him, he's pretty busy and he doesn't have time to read it all, and I