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...last week Jack Schermerhorn, a police reporter on the Detroit Free Press, hustled from the police station to the office. He was looking for Malcolm Wallace Bingay, Free Press editorial director, and he was going to give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...morning after the election, the face of the U.S. press wore a ludicrous look. The Republican Detroit Free Press, for example, put its final edition to bed at 3:30 a.m. At breakfast its readers heard on their radios that Truman was winning -and on Malcolm W. Bingay's editorial page, they read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred...
That story reminded me of a remark made by one of America's top flight newspapermen-Malcolm Bingay, Editorial Director of the Detroit Free Press: "Reading TIME," he said, "is like talking after hours to an extraordinarily well-informed group of newspaper reporters...
Editorial director for the Free Press's arch-conservative Republican policy has been Malcolm Wallace Bingay, who will probably stay on as a columnist though Detroiters gagged that his column's name would be changed from "Good Morning" to "Good Night." As for the rest, 42 of them scrambled to join the Newspaper Guild, which got its first contract the day before Knight took over...
Father Coughlin's suit got little publicity; his bill of particulars was not made public. Newsmen who heard of it looked forward to a riotous courtroom rough-Stumble between the priest and Mr. Bingay. But that free...