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...months to the walnut-paneled office of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick. But last week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
...Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
Columnist Fisher is warm in praise of warm-hearted Ernie Pyle (TIME, May 31) and the late Raymond Clapper (TIME...
...famous case was a British officer who underwent a long operation to extract a bullet from his heart. Finally the surgeon gave up. The officer was still alive at last report. The tip of the bullet had worked its way into one of his heart chambers, swung like a clapper in a small bell with every heartbeat...
...week's end it was announced that Marquis W. Childs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent, would become a United Feature Syndicate Inc., columnist, would be offered to the list of papers that had carried Raymond Clapper...