"As you know," she said, "you're supposed to let me read a copy before you send it to the papers. Now I think that's rather childish. You just tell me what stories you're sending in . . . before you send them in."

And then a few afterthoughts: "Whenever you get a photographer from a Boston paper, I have to be there." And, "I wish you wouldn't call in riots." And that was all.

The whole air was very cordial. But if the girls had any doubts about Miss Projansky's meaning they could notice that one of the correspondents was no longer with them. Radcliffe had purged her from the press board five days before, because she had written a story and didn't clear it.

She is R. Deborah Labenow Labenow '51, former correspondent for the Herald and former Bureau Chief for the CRIMSON. She had dug up a scoop on Radcliffe's proposed graduate center and checked it with Dean Cronkhite. "She liked the story," says Miss Labenow.

Miss Labenow phoned the story to the Boston Herald but was unable to clear-it-with-Projansky because Miss Projansky was not in her office when she called. Called before the Board of Deans, she was told she had committeed an offense against the Press Board, and, later, that she had to resign. Miss Labenow thinks there is a lot of irony in the action; for the Herald never even printed her story.

No Press Board, No News

"Insofar as she is a Radcliffe girl, she is responsible to this office," Miss Projansky explained. "We'll probably wait a week or so and then assign a new reporter to the Herald."

How does the Herald feel about all this? City Editor Don Ross says, "That's something I have to think about. Debby is our correspondent. If we took off on it, we'd take off on it in full swing. Either we'll do nothing or we'll go full swing."

Ross knows what he'll lose if he starts swinging. He would have to hire a Radcliffe stringer not accredited by the Press Board. "The situation has never arisen," says Miss Projansky. "That would have to be dealt with by the college. The girl wouldn't have our inside news sources. We probably wouldn't give her any releases."

The chief-of-correspondents for the Boston Globe says this: "I once spoke before several college publicity officers and I criticized several things about them. I told them democracy was at work when a newspaper covers the news," and the colleges shouldn't try to suppress it, he said. He had good words for the Publicity Bureau at Smith College. "There was a big hunt for a missing Smith girl who was supposed to have eloped and been killed. The publicity office at Smith did everything they could to help me get a picture of the girl. The head of the publicity office said she had a responsibility to the newspapers as well as to the college. I think it's a pretty wholesome situation at Smith."

Pajamas Before Nine

Boston editors, looking for all-round coverage, say they have a right to be annoyed. Last month the Radcliffe Publicity Office told them that the inter-dorm song contest would begin at 9 p.m. Then Miss Projansky found out some girls were doing a number in pajamas. She freely admits: "I told Rachel (contest chairman Rachel Mellinger '52) to put that on first, before 9."

Another reporter went after a story on the grades of Radcliffe freshmen. "They said they didn't want anything like that to run, because," the reporter states, "it would make Radcliffe look unfavorable compared to Harvard." Once a Moors Hall student phoned in a minor riot, and was called on the carpet by the deans.

NEWS Gives Little Trouble

Besides the Press Board, Annex news escapes through two other channels: the Radcliffe News and the CRIMSON. The administration has had little trouble with the News. "We don't ever have a policy of scrounging for news," Editor-in-chief Ann Roberts '51 explains. "It doesn't seem that any paper should have to rely for its news on scrounging around for things that are wrong."