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Francis G. Collier, Little 34, received...
Today, with The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's all clamoring for Price drawings, Cartoonist Price has a hard time keeping up with the demand. He gets $80 and up from The New Yorker. His biggest money comes from advertising accounts (General Electric's "bulbsnatching" series, etc.), which pay him up to $350 each for hundreds of drawings a year...
Secretary Knox in a recent Collier's article perhaps enjoyed telling the "secret" (kept till then by newsmen) that a U.S. airman was aboard the plane which spotted the Bismarck'and called the British fleet in for the kill. Again, although Winston Churchill was all for letting the public know about his meeting with the President as soon as it took place, Franklin Roosevelt, gleeful over his private secret, interposed every obstacle then and later to letting out even the most innocuous information...
...Bertie McCormick's title as No. 1 isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly and under pretext...
...monarchy of Monaco (3 by 1½mi.) lost 100% of its merchant fleet last week. The Lekamuth, an ancient collier chartered from the British, was torpedoed in the North Sea bound from Newcastle with the monarchy's entire coal supply for next winter aboard. Unless another supply can be obtained, Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine's 24,000 subjects may have to burn Monte Carlo's roulette wheels to keep warm...