40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Karen McTrotsky]

Barrister Ross cites Wikipedia for the date of Leverett Saltonstall's
reelection as U.S. Senator and for the proposition that he received a
majority of ballots cast at the election.

I was wrong on the date; Wikipedia is wrong on the result.

Yes, Saltonstall was reelected in 1954 rather than 1956. However, he
received 49.25695 percent of the total number of  votes cast. The hearsay
reflected by Wikipedia is incorrect. The only way to get to Wikipedia's
calculation is to ignore 21 write-in votes   49,361 blanks.   See:  Manual
of the General Court available at internet.org

My original point remains, which is the revisionist retelling of the
WHDH-TV license story based on scraps of secondary information concerning
the Globe and the Kennedy family is incomplete without understanding the
political landscape of the time. Simply put, it was the era of the last
stand of the Yankee Republicans against ethnic Democrats as evidenced by
the very close Kennedy-Lodge and Saltonstall-Furcolo elections. There was
no business more aligned with the Yankee culture than The Shoe, whose
principals and allies had big stakes in Herald-Traveler Corp., and no
larger Yankee political figure than Saltonstall. It is hard to fathom that
he sat by while Kennedys and the Globe exercised muscle in a regulatory
battle before the Eisenhower dominated FCC and Federal Circuit since the
battle had profound influence on the survival of the Republican newspaper
of record.