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...When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents...
Sherwood, one of the top directors of U.S. psychological warfare in World War II, was aghast at the reaction that his lead article on the "history" of World War III stirred up in Washington. One State Department expert on Russia moaned that the Collier's issue might "wipe out all the good our propaganda may have accomplished in the past year" In Europe, non-Communist newspapers denounced Collier's for its "warmongering." Even the United Nations, in whose name Collier's fought the war, lodged an official protest against the magazine...
Varsity basketball fans will have a chance to see one of the best games of the year tonight when undefeated Boston College plays the Crimson at 8:30 tonight in the I.A.B. The Eagles were rated 20th in the country in this year's Collier's pre-season predictions and so far have lived up to their notices by winning six straight games...
Goodman is a member of the CRIMSON Editorial Board, and is also a varsity squash player. Last summer he attended a Communist youth rally in Eastern Germany and he subsequently wrote a controversial report of his experiences for Collier's magazine...
Though Author Collier sometimes tries to point a subtle moral in his tales, he is not so much a moralist as an entertainer. In his own little department of the bizarre, he is as good as they come...