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...question of segregation in Southern public schools, Editor Ralph McGill of the influential Atlanta Constitution (circ. 173,591) has long steered an enlightened but discreet course. But last week, in his daily column, McGill spoke bluntly. "What the various Southern state legislatures are doing," said he, "as they busy themselves with plans to carry on school segregation without legal compulsion, is admitting [that] segregation by law is finished ... It, therefore, seems important that we discuss the problem as rationally as possible...
...both sides expected the dispute to end quickly. They were wrong. The strike dragged on for eleven days as New Yorkers tried all manner of stunts to get news without newspapers (see below). Not until this week did it look as if the six striking New York dailies (combined circ. 5,500,000) and representatives of the Photo-Engravers' Union would reach a settlement...
...editor of the Labor Party's London Daily Herald (circ. 1,965,504), Percy Cudlipp, 48, has had trouble keeping the paper from being a dull, party house organ. Caught between the Trades Union Congress and Labor Party, which owns 49% of the paper, and Odhams Press Ltd., which holds the other 51% of the stock, Editor Cudlipp has battled to make the paper a lively daily while satisfying his political bosses' demands for space for such dull stories as long-winded party speeches. Last week Editor Cudlipp got tired of the delicate balancing act. Barely four days...
...Ullsteins' four other dailies, five weeklies and six magazines. Last year they got some of their property back (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952), and under Karl H. Ullstein, 61, grandson of the founder, started up the Berliner Morgenpost again. It quickly became the biggest daily in the city (circ. 190,000). The reopening of BZ was the Ullsteins' second major step in their comeback as publishers...
Died. Arthur George Waters, 65, editor of Britain's (and the world's) best-selling newspaper, the sexy, crime-packed Sunday News of the World (circ. 8,230,158); after long illness; in Brockham, England...