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...city of Bradford Hingham tested his new power, and here Harrington's bizzare satire is at its best. Hingham changes his personality to fit each prospect, and meets with no failure. Soon "It was a frenzy, a perfect orgy of setting in which, finally, he did not speak at all but had only to make a convulsive gesture and the people accepted the contracts he thrust at them...
Ever since J. Russell Maguire, oil speculator, munitions maker and onetime broker, took over the fading American Mercury (circ. 66,017) in 1952 he has had staff trouble. Within six months Editor William Bradford Huie walked out rather than turn over editorial control to Owner Maguire. Last week most of the Mercury's top editors left in a body. Out went Editor John A. Clements, who is also promotion boss of the Hearst, magazines, followed by Editorial Writer J. B. Matthews, Military Pundit George Fielding Eliot, Author (Seeds of Treason) Ralph de Toledano and three others. Columnists Howard Rushmore...
WHILE a TIME Researcher, Mary Ellen Lukas, roamed through Hoboken, searching for background material for this week's cover story on Frank Sinatra, Cinema Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. was on vacation in Europe, still unaware that his first job upon returning would be to write the Sinatra story. Meanwhile, Correspondent Ezra Goodman scoured Hollywood, pursuing Sinatra himself. The West Coast chase led Goodman from Sinatra's luxurious duplex on Wilshire Boulevard through recording studios and an Italian restaurant to the singer-actor's sumptuous dressing room...
...ROARK BRADFORD...
Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley...