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...infantry in 1942, went through Officer Candidate School, served 392 days under fire in the ETO with the National Guard 35th Division, came home a major. He promptly got himself appointed acting postmaster of Huntsville (pop. 1.150), resigned after he bought a scraggly Huntsville weekly, the Madison County Record (circ. 3,100), which he still runs...
...more than the Des Moines Tribune could stand. The paper (circ. 136,455) stiffly informed readers last week that it was discontinuing the current Mary Worth sequence because it was a "thinly disguised attack on the creator of another comic strip." Huffed a special announcement: "The editors of the Tribune believe that readers want to be entertained by comic strips and are not interested in the jealousies and rivalries that exist between comic strip creators...
While building Punch into its readable and financially hale condition circ. (132,000), Muggeridge has also built Muggeridge into a major TV personality. As commentator and interviewer on the BBC (a favorite Punch target), he treats sentimentality, mediocrity and many a sacred cow with waspish wit, which, coupled with his upper-crust air, has made the popular press bill him as "the man you love to hate." Muggeridge will go on being fascinatingly hateful on TV, plans a novel and a biography of George (1984) Orwell. At Punch, where Muggeridge's brisk ways produced some sparks as well...
...after Davis' story ran in the Post (circ. 203,743), Houston Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson summoned a court of inquiry and decided that the only way to halt Houston's armaments race was by "strict enforcement" of the law requiring gun buyers to show a certificate. Justice Thompson's next step: to issue arrest warrants for six Houston gun dealers and for Reporter Davis, who had already got rid of his pistol and protested that he wouldn't own one at any price-even...
...only out-of-town papers to reach Boston in any quantity were New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb's daily Manchester Union Leader (circ. 48,575) and Sunday News (40,000). Neanderthal Republican Loeb (TIME, May 20), who frequently vents his spleen in terrible-tempered Page One editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After...