Capp, Mauldin Talk Tonight At Law Forum

Does "sponsorship mean censorship"? Tonight's Law School Forum at the Rindge Tech auditorium will consider the issue.

Al Capp, of Schmoo and L'il Abner fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio.

Robert Braucher, professor of Law, will serve as moderator at the discussion.

Last summer, Capp pinch hit for Drew Pearson as commentator on "Washington Merry-go-round" while Pearson was vacationing. During that brief spell of radio work, Capp sensed and expressed resentment about sponsors' interference with broadcasts.

McDonald, a full time and more content newscaster, is expected to defend radio sponsors from Capp's anticipated verbal onslaught.

In "Back Home," Mauldin's post-war sequel to his "Up Front," the cartoonist complained about pressure from advertisers on the editorial and news content of certain papers. Law Forum program arrangers don't think he has changed his mind.

Mullins, in the past, has gone on record in defense of the press' coverage as free from outside control.