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A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919-1955Loud Bark and Curious Eyesby George GarriguesPrinted edition © 1970, 1997Internet Edition © 2000, 2001, 2003All rights reserved, but you are welcome to download electronic copies, send e-copies to your friends or make printouts for yourself. |
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PASTSome day The Great Conspiracy Against the Bruin will come out in the public. As for now, it is better for the school that no one, not even the students, know the true facts. —Martin A. Brower, Daily Bruin editor, Feb. 23, 1951 . . . the old Bruin I loved is dead. It ran around for a while, kicking and biting like a mongrel pup in the pound who senses that he is soon to be put to sleep. But the superior forces of the dog-catcher and the law have tamed the pup with the loud bark and curious eyes. The ghost of the dead Bruin may rise up and be heard. But most probably it will sleep on peaceably. —Zena Stanten, Daily Bruin associate editor, Jan. 7, 1955 |
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When Liz McDannel, president of the Daily Bruin Alumni Association, asked me to make reprints of my thesis, Loud Bark and Curious Eyes: A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919-1955, available to members and friends of the association, I demurred at first because I wanted to check the text to see if it had held up during the past quarter century. Not too badly, I found, though in one or two places I was able to insert some new material not available to me in May 1970, when I finished the original text. And I cured some errors and updated some style quirks from days of yore. Gone, for example, is "Miss Edelman." She is now just plain "Edelman." I also had to insert some explanations that were not needed in 1970, which, after all, was only some 15 years after the period of time described in the thesis. The campus green boxes used to distribute the Daily Bruin have all vanished, replaced by fancy rigs that include an area for paid clothing ads and bins for the many ethnic newspapers that have sprung up in the past decade or two. What was the Blue "C"? I had to explain. And tell why it had been covered with dirt. The question is, Why should anybody care about these long-gone political battles on the UCLA campus? Clearly, some people do. I received a phone call some time ago from a former DB editor who said the frayed copy of my thesis in the DB office was "required reading" for him while at UCLA. (He had tracked me down through the Internet, certainly a communication device unheard of during most of the history of the Bruin.) More to the point: This tale demonstrates that the freedoms we take for granted, on the campus or off, are constantly under attack—often by people in positions of great authority. We let down our guard at our peril. January 1997 (Revised May 2000) |
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NORMAL OUTLOOK (Normal Outlook list taken from DB, 11/30/51.)
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| 1910-11 | Clarence Hodges, Shirley D. Burns. |
| 1911-15 | No names available. |
| 1915-16 | Albert T. Blanford, Gertrude C.Maloney, Willette Long, Eva Smith. |
| 1916-17 | Lee Roy Smith, Eva Throckmorton. |
| 1917-18 | Elizabeth Lee Polk, Nina Ehlers. |
| 1918-19 | Possibly not published. |
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CUB CALIFORNIAN
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| 1919-1921 | Dale Stoddard, Alice Lookabaugh, Fern Ashley, David K. Barnwell. |
| 1920-21 | Mildred Sanborn. |
| 1921-22 | John A. Worley. |
| 1922-23 | Irving C. Kramer. |
| 1923 (fall) | Irving C. Kramer. |
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CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY
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| 1924 (spring) | Fred M. Jordan. |
| 1924-25 | John F. Cohee, Robert W. Kerr. |
| 1925-26 | John F. Cohee, Ben Person. |
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BRUIN
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| 1926-27 | William E. Forbes. |
| 1927-28 | James F. Wickizer. |
| 1928-29 | H. Monte Harrington, Gene Harvey. |
| 1929-30 | Walter T. Bogart. |
| 1930-31 | Carl Schaefer, Charles Olton. |
| 1931-32 | Maxwell Clark. |
| 1932-33 | George Elmendorf. |
| 1933-34 | Robert K. Shellaby. |
| 1934-35 | F. Chandler Harris. |
| 1935-36 | Gilbert Harrison. |
| 1936-37 | Stanley Rubin. |
| 1937-38 | Roy Swanfeldt, Norman Borisoff. |
| 1938-39 | William T. Brown, Everett Carter. |
| 1939-40 | Sanford J. Mock, Richard K. Pryne. |
| 1940-41 | Bruce Cassiday, Jack Hauptli. |
| 1941-42 | Malcolm Steinlauf, Robert M. Barsky. |
| 1942-43 | Tom Smith, Robert Weil, Josephine Rosenfield. |
| 1943-44 | Adele Truitt, Charlotte Klein, Gloria Farquar. |
| 1944-45 | Pat Campbell, Helen Licht, Doris Willens. |
| 1945-46 | Hannah Bloom, Bill Stout, Anne Stern. |
| 1946-47 | Ann Hebert, Frank Mankiewicz. |
| 1947-48 | Paul Simqu, Elmer L. (Chally) Chalberg. |
| 1948-49 | Charles G. Francis, Grover Heyler. |
| 1949-50 | James D. Garst, Harold E. Watkins. |
| 1950-51 | Eugene Frumkin, Jerry Schlapik (acting), Martin A. Brower. |
| 1951-52 | Robert Myers, Peter Graber. |
| 1952-53 | Richard Schenk, Jack Weber. |
| 1953-54 | Albert Greenstein, M. E. Vogel. |
| 1954-55 | Martin D. McReynolds, Irv Drasnin. |
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Adm = Minutes of the Administrative Staff Committee of UCLA
Arch = University Archives (UCLA), 1919-1945 BOC = Minutes of the Board of Control of the Associated Students of UCLA BOT = Minutes of the Board of Trustees, Los Angeles State Normal School, filed with the University Archives CB = California Bruin CC = Cub Californian CDB = California Daily Bruin CG = California Grizzly Chanc = Records of the Chancellor's Office, UCLA DB = UCLA Daily Bruin Dickson = Papers of Regent Edward A. Dickson |
LAEx = Los Angeles Examiner LAT = Los Angeles Times NO = Normal Outlook Obs = The Observer, filed in Chanc, 1955, Folder 228 Questionnaire = Filled out and returned by mail to the author in 1969-70. They were placed by him in the Special Collections Room of the University Research Library SB = Summer Bruin or Summer Session Bruin SEC = Minutes of Student Executive Council through June 1953 SLC = Minutes of Student Legislative Council after June 1953 SoCam = Southern Campus Sproul = Robert Gordon Sproul Archives, UC at Berkeley UC Arch = University of California Archives, Bancroft Library, Berkeley |
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| Ackerman, William C., 73, 128 .....and Hell's Bells, 28, 31 .....on wartime at UCLA, 67 .....on Daily Bruin independence, 137 .....on student election of editors, 149 Administration. See also names of individual administrators .....and Daily Bruin, 54-57, 59, 63- 64, 72, 75, 133+, 139 .....and control of Summer Bruin, 128-129 .....veto over student editors, 144, 151 .....establishes Communications Board, 150 .....changes ASUCLA constitution, 151 Advertising, 9, 12, 22, 121-123 .....political, 122, 142, 144 Advisor, 43, 55, 60, 103, 136-137, 143 Advisory board, 114, 137, 145 African Americans, 7, 16, 22-23, 72-73, 115 Ainsworth, Ed, 125 Albaum, Mel, 144 Allen, Raymond B., 112, 138-139 .....on subversion in Daily Bruin, 84, 155 .....appointed Chancellor, 113 .....on political advertising, 122 .....refuses to modify Bruin constitution, 136 .....on Communists at UCLA, 144 .....approves proposal for control of Bruin, 145 .....on right to attend UCLA, 159 Allen, Roscoe F., 61 American Civil Liberties Union, 151 American Student Union, 54 American Youth for Democracy, 90, 122 Andrews, William L., 16-17 Anvil, 113 Arlen, Michael, 20 Ashley, Fern, 124, 153 Associated Collegiate Press, 67, 87 Athletes, subsidized, 38, 52-54 Atkinson, Byron H. (Barney), 75, 135, 143 .....and The Observer, 151 Attorney General, U.S., 122, 144, 150 Avery, J. Brewer, 30 Badger, George S., 30 Baker, Bob, 118 Balter, Sam, 24, 30 Banks, Louis, 45 Barnwell, David K., 153 Barrymore, John, 20 Barsky, Robert M., 48, 66, 67, 154 Barthell, Robert, 146 Baseball, 49-50 Bassett, James, 81 Beals, Alan, 90 Beirne, William B., 79, 80 Benson, Bennie, 85 Berdahl, Robert O., 145 Berk, Philip, 117 Beverly Hills Citizen, 106, 116 Beverly Hills News-Life, 143 Billet, Leonard, 138 Blanford, Albert T. , 153 Blank, Eugene, 102, 104, 117, 136 Blatt, Jerry, 141 Bloom, Hannah, 76, 88, 154 Blue Shield, 88 Board of Control, 48 Boddy, Manchester, 79, 89 Bogart, Walter T., 30, 153 Boggs, Joan, 131 Borisoff, Norman, 121, 154 Bradford, William, 50 Brady, Tom, 45 Brandt, Joseph A., 108, 126, 136 .....suggests story on Communism at UCLA to Saturday Evening Post, 83 Brisbane, Arthur, 21 Brower, Martin A., vii, 48, 96-97, 102-109, 112, 116, 154 .....resigns as editor, 105-106 Brown, Bill, 54, 56 Brown, Darwin C., 40-41 Brown, Robert, 45 Brown, William T. , 154 Buell, Doctor, 61 Bunche, Ralph, 14, 23, 115 Burgess, Clasen Eugene, 30 Burns, Roy, 49 Burns, Shirley D. , 153 Burnside, John, 41 Byrne, Skip, 145 Cain, Carl L., 115 Cake, Lee, 146 California Bruin. See also Daily Bruin and individual headings. .....chronological range of, 2 California Drinking Song, 57 California Grizzly. See also Daily Bruin and individual headings. .....chronological range of, 2 .....first issue of, 17 .....changes name to Daily Bruin, 21-22 California Newspaper Publishers Association, 21 California Tech, 15 Campbell's Book Store, 121 Campbell, Pat, 154 Campbell, W.W., 30-31 Canaday, John, 126 Carr, Katharine, 28 Carter, Everett, 54, 154 Cartoons, 6, 10, 13, 16, 21, 115 Carver Club, 112 Cassiday, Bruce, 39, 42-43, 45, 55-56, 154 Castellamare Inn, 129 Cavett, Thomas, 80 Censorship, 28, 59, 63-64, 80, 88-90, 105, 127, 136, 137, 142 Chalberg, Elmer L., (Chally), 82, 90-91, 140, 154 Chandler, Norman, 81, 89 Chicago Tribune, 68 Christian Science Monitor, 44, 53 Circulation, 16, 36, 37, 123-124 Clark, Maxwell, 153 Claw, 32 Cohee, John F., 14-15, 20, 24, 29, 111n, 153 .....suspended for Hell's Bells edition, 27-28 Colmenares, Joe, 85, 146, 149 Committee for Campus Equality, 82 Communications Board, 150 Communism and Communists .....at UCLA, 10, 25, 40-43, 69, 77, 79-85, 89, 90-91, 93, 96-97, 99, 109, 122, 136, 138, 143-144, 150, 159 .....publications banned, 113 .....speakers banned from University of California, 113 Comstock, Polly, 131 Corey, Rue, 108 Council of Twelve, 9 Cox, Claire, 45 Credit, academic, for work on newspaper, 5, 11, 126, 127 Crusade for Freedom, 101-102, 105 Cub Californian, 7-12. See also Daily Bruin and individual headings. .....chronological range of, 2 .....becomes California Grizzly, 17 Cub Shows, 130 Daily Bruin. See also individual headings .....chronological range of, 2 .....founding of, as Normal Outlook, 3-4 .....shortage of writers, 4, 9-11, 115, 135, 150 .....size of, 5, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 66, 122 .....production methods of, 5, 8, 11, 12, 36, 66, 71, 106-107, 116-117, 135 .....format of, 5, 12, 43, 66 .....first issue of, as Cub Californian, 7-9 .....office of, 8, 10, 36 .....news policy of, 9-10, 20, 36, 43, 67-68, 87-89, 96, 112, 134, 149-150; criticized, 37, 48, 77 .....and student government, 9, 49, 54. See also Student Council .....working conditions on, 11, 24, 74 .....color printing in, 16 .....publishing schedule, 17, 19, 66 .....becomes a daily, 19-20, 47 .....sports coverage in, 20 .....staff organization, 20 .....name changed from California Grizzly, 21-22 .....copy desk (furniture), 1, 36, 37 .....off-campus news coverage in, 42, 70, 82, 102, 116 .....editorial policy of, 43, 89, 149 .....spirit of, 47, 55, 57, 109, 115; breakdown, 149 ....."self-perpetuating clique" in, 48, 74, 82, 84-85, 88, 103, 134, 145, 150, 157 .....errors in, 60, 72, 89, 97, 116-117, 130, 135 .....name changed to California Bruin, 66 ....."midnight meetings" of, 84, 108, 158 .....assumes present name, 91, 82 .....25th anniversary of, 115-116 ....."Death" of, 107, 133-147, 149 .....constitution ordered for, 134 .....alternation of conservatives and liberals as editorial nominees, 141 .....joins reactionary trend, 150 Daily Californian, 43, 90, 62-63 .....Advisory Board named for, 114 Dances, 5, 13, 25, 53 Daughters of the American Revolution, 61 Davis Farm Agricola, 15 Devere, James P., 62 Dickson, Edward A., 23-24, 125 Dilettant, The (column), 44 Drasnin, Irv, 146, 150-151, 154 Dykstra, Clarence A., 81 .....target of conservatives, 80 .....friendly toward Daily Bruin, 88 .....and Paul Robeson, 92 .....death of, 104 Edelman, Helen, vi, 82, 96-97, 103, 156-157 .....nominated society editor, 100 Ederle, Gertrude, 20 Edison, Thomas A., 5 Editor's Feature Service, 21 Edmunds, Waldo, 14 Ehlers, Nina, 153 Ehrlichman, John, 100n Election of editors by students, 101, 126, 144-145, 149-50 Elmendorf, George, 154 English, Department of, 8, 129 Estabrook, Howard, 129 Ethics, 21, 134, 137-139 Fanger, Don, 100, 103 Farber, Jerry, 146, 152 Farquar, Gloria, 67, 154 Feature (opinion) pages, 35, 40, 44, 52, 63, 85, 89, 93, 95, 97-98, 104, 117, 150, 159 ....."left wing control" of, 48, 115 .....Administration bars from Summer Bruin, 136 .....editor required to check content, 142 .....limited to staff writers, 143 .....cutback in frequency, 149 Feiffer, Jules, 101 Ferguson, Charles, 54, 122 Field, C. Don, 80 Football, 8, 13-16, 22, 25, 35, 38, 54, 57, 62, 65, 95, 142, 143 .....coverage of, in Daily Bruin, 13-14, 19, 25, 53, 74 .....and Communists on team, 84 Forbes, William E., 3, 20-21, 24, 60, 125, 153 Fox, Jean, 146 Francis, Charles G., 91-93, 97, 101, 115, 154, 158 .....as UCLA public information officer, 139, 143 Frank, Toni, 152 Franken, Al, 89 Fraternities and sororities, 35-36, 56, 90, 95, 100, 123, 150 Frumkin, Eugene, 100-102, 154 Fuoss, Robert, 82 Garabedian, Ron, 137, 142 Garrigues, C. H. (Brick), 111n Garrigues, George L., 109n, 111, 112, 118-119, 133 .....Student Council rejection of, 1, 117 Garst, James D., 87, 97, 134, 154 .....Student Council rejection of, 98 George, Joe J., 30 Giannini, L.M., 102 Gilliam, Hal, 45 Gilmore, Betty, 100 Ginsberg, Fannie, 125 Ginsburg, Ted E., 43 Girven, Gloria, 67 Good taste, 32, 44, 64, 89, 138-139 Goodnow, Marc N., 125 Graber, Peter, 114-116, 152, 154, 159 Greenfield, Greta, 90 Greenstein, Al, 2, 87, 111, 115, 119, 135-136, 138-139, 141, 154 Grins and Growls, 15, 23, 53, 138, 143, 145 Gross, Leonard, 101 Hahn, Milton E. .....on Communists at UCLA, 81, 84, 93, 115, 135, 141, 155 .....on Helen Edelman, 96, 156, 157 .....on Universal Military training articles, 97 .....on single-slate system, 98; outlaws it, 99 .....and Jerry Schlapik, 103 .....on censorship, 104 .....and plan for taking control of Daily Bruin, 104-105, 108, 133, 136, 143-147 .....suspends Carver Club, 112 .....on Daily Bruin, 134 .....on freedom of expression, 139 .....and The Observer, 151 .....on subversive propaganda in Daily Bruin, 155-157 .....testimony before Tenney Committee, 155-159 .....says Student Council owns Daily Bruin, 157 Haldeman, Bob, 100n Ham 'n' Eggs, 62-63 Hamilton, Andrew, 45, 143 .....rejected by Student Council, 51 .....on Communists at UCLA, 83 .....on Daily Bruin freedom, 139 Hansen, Ralph, 122 Hansen, Victor R., 143-144 Haralson, Cap, 14 Harrington, H. Monte, 30-32, 153 Harris, Boyd, 55 Harris, F. Chandler, 35, 41, 45, 51, 60, 154 .....on Daily Bruin freedom, 139 Harris, Robert E. G., 125 Harrison, Gilbert, 44-45, 51-53, 154 Harvard Lampoon, 27 Harvey, Gene, 153 Hauptli, Jack, 154 Hazing, 22 Hearst, William Randolph, 89 Hebert, Ann, 154 Hedrick, Earle Raymond .....on control of Daily Bruin, 55 .....and California Drinking Song, 57 .....and "Ham 'n' Eggs," 63 .....retires, 72 Hefley, Jack, 102, 104, 115 Hell Week, 35, 40 Hell's Bells, 25-33 Heyler, Grover, 87, 89, 97-98, 102-103, 111, 154 Hill, Richard .....as student 94, 98 .....in Administration, 139, 143-145, 151-152 Hobart, May, 45 Hodgeman, Jeanne, 38 Hodges, Clarence, 153 Hollywood Citizen, 21, 36 Hollywood Citizen-News, 37, 124-125, 127 Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel, 129 Horrell, Babe, 74, 75 House Committee on Un-American Activities (U.S.), 138, 150 Houser, Fred, 29 Hubert, Ruth, 13 Humor, 4-5, 25-33, 68-69, 78 Huntley, Chet, 82 Hutchins, Robert, 151 Illustrated Daily News, 17. See also Los Angeles Daily News Influenza, 6, 10 Innerst, Ivan, 136, 143 Jaffie, Robert, 74 Janov, Arthur, 103-104 Janss Investment Corp., 61 Japanese Americans, discrimination against, 36, 67 Japanese, exclusion of, 7 Jews, 61, 73, 100n, 102-103 Johnson, Clyde S., 89 Jordan, Fred Moyer, 15, 131, 153 Jordan, Robert S., 83 Journalism, Department of, 83, 108, 116, 136, 144 Julber, Eric, 89, 97, 101 Junior college transfers, 75, 134, 135 Kahn, Al, 45 Keene, Harold, 45, 50 Keene, Willliam, 97 Kennedy, Robert F., 90 Kerckhoff Hall, 1, 36, 54, 65, 95, 99, 111, 117, 119, 126, 129, 133, 139 .....Men's Lounge, 79-80, 95, 105 .....Women's Lounge, 99 Kerr, Robert W. , 153 Kibre, Jeff, 38, 50 Kirsch, Robert R., 127 Klein, Charlotte, 70, 154 Klipper, Barbara, 93 Kligman, Ann, 104, 107 Knee, Seymour, 54 Knight, Goodwin J., 116 Knox, Al, 49 Koebig, Fred, 55 Korean War, 83, 94, 96, 98, 103-104, 112 Kosches, Adrienne (Hall) (misspelled as Adriane in the printed text), 101 Kramer, Irving C., 61, 153 Labor Youth League, 93, 100, 138, 159 Lambert, Thomas, 51-52 Land, Myrick, 101 Landis, Harry, 55 Laski, Harold, 87 Laughlin, Helen, 24, 129 Lee, Walter, 17 Leeburg, Lew, 136 Letters column, 5, 9, 15. 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Lewis, Rehbach, 32 Liberal Club, 25 Library, University (Powell), 40, 100n, 131 Licht, Helene, 75, 154 Lindsey, Ben B., 23 Literary coverage, 21, 36 Long, Willette, 153 Longuiel, Alfred, 129 Lookabaugh, Alice, 6, 9, 11, 153 Los Angeles City College, 57, 92 Los Angeles Daily News, 14, 24, 79, 115, 125, 146 Los Angeles Examiner, 80 .....on "People's Bruin," 106 Los Angeles Express, 23 Los Angeles Mirror, 83 Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, 24 Los Angeles State Normal School, 3, 59. See also UCLA Los Angeles Times, 14, 77-79, 125 .....on Communists at UCLA, 81 Loyalty oaths, 95, 100, 102, 113-114, 138, 145, 152, 159 .....Daily Bruin coverage of, 85, 87 .....as Daily Bruin requirement, 134 .....in ROTC, 143 MacArthur, Douglas, 112-113 MacDonald, Grant, 83 Maclise, Dening, 62 Maloney, Gertrude C. , 153 Mankiewicz, Frank, 90-91, 101, 154 Mathewson, Helen, 11, 28 Maxson, Roger, 30 McCarthy, Sen. Joseph R., 78, 139 McCarthyism, 78, 83, 87, 93, 112, 114, 122, 138 McClure, S. G., 37 McDannel, Liz, v McNitt, Frank, 158 McReynolds, David, 113-114, 141-142 McReynolds, Martin, 113-114, 119, 133, 140-143, 145-147, 150, 152, 154 Men's Pages, 33, 68-69, 78 Michelmore, Laurence, 30 Mike Quin Student Club, 122 Militarism, 35, 41 Miller, Earl J., 51-52, 66, 69, 72, 75 .....supervising Daily Bruin policy, 60 .....on Communist students, 73-74 .....on freedom of student press, 88 Miller, Harry P., 30 Millspaugh, Jesse, 59 Mindlin, Phyllis, 125 |