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...Backer of This Week is old (77) Joseph Palmer Knapp, son of the founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., chief stockholder of Crowell Publishing Co., who also owns Alco-Gravure, world's biggest rotogravure printers, which makes a "modest" profit printing This Week. Its editor is Mrs. William Brown Meloney (mother of Novelist William Brown Meloney), 59, tiny, fragile, grey-haired, who now edits the magazine from her suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. In her 40-year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer...
...loaded news columns, the Colonel invokes the tradition of personal journalism that made the Tribune great under his famed grandfather Joseph Medill, Lincoln's stanch backer and crony ("Take your Goddamned feet off my desk, Abe") and one of the Civil War's fieriest propagandists. Old Medill summed up his news technique in a classic story in 1857 headed A BRUTE. One James Wheeler was fined $5 for maltreating his wife. The Tribune story concluded: "A few months' experience in breaking stones in the Bridewell would do this Wheeler a 'power of good...
Boomed James Aloysius Farley, another O'Dwyer backer: "Never have we been so degraded. ... A man . . . last night showed himself in his true colors...
...trouble he likes best: name-calling. The little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman (backer of his opponent, William O'Dwyer) into the same paragraph with the words "goniff" (Yiddish for thief) and "double-crosser...
This autumn the Philharmonic raided the Janssen Symphony, captured its first cellist and two of its Heifetzes. A program annotator and a lady sponsor, each connected with both orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...