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Last week Printer-Editor Hollands became the first German permitted to publish in the British and American occupation zones. No U.S. censor will see the Narhrichten (circ. 50,000) before it goes to press...
Louis Fischer's indictment of the Nation (circ. 37,425) echoed an indictment of the New Republic (circ. 37,253) made some weeks earlier by Contributing Editor Varian Fry, who said on resigning: "After reading your editorial [on Russia] I felt as though I wanted to vomit." Last week Fry found a dish more to his taste. He took over the editorship of Common Sense (which claims over 15,000 circulation) a splinter-leftist monthly whose special recipe for Russia includes a strong-as-curry flavor of skepticism...
...Broadway columnists may be thankful for the public's short memory-but none more so than the New York Daily News's dandyish Danton Walker. Either not knowing or not caring how often his "predictions" go sour, 17 U.S. newspapers (circ. 9,000,000) now run his daily offerings...
...last places on earth where the C.I.O. expects praise is in Wall Street. But last week the Wall Street Journal turned handsprings in ungrudging admiration of the C.I.O. News (circ. 450,000 weekly), one of the biggest U.S. labor papers. Understandably, the admiration had a professional rather than an ideological basis...
True Confessions (current circ. 1,795,000) 'is now as straight-laced as a temperance speaker's corset. For two years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband; the crooked lawyer never does Honest John out of his inheritance; every last confession ends in an odor of uplift...