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...does see the President whenever he wants, through the White House back door. Hannegan then devoted two-thirds of his speech to an assault on New York's Governor Thomas Dewey ("who copies down the answers on his little slate after the examination is all over"). In Collier's, Alben Barkley, sublimely oblivious of his dramatic break with the President, used 3,000 words to say why he, too, is for Term...
...Collier's got a new editor last week. To succeed the late Charles Colebaugh, a Collier's man for 27 years who died last week, Publisher William Ludlow Chenery chose a comparative newcomer: 42-year-old Henry La Cossitt. Big-shouldered, vigorous Henry La Cossitt has been Collier's managing editor for a mere four months, has been associated with the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (as fiction editor of the American Magazine) only three years...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
Died. George Washington Collier, 100, The Bronx's last member of the G.A.R., in The Bronx, N.Y. Greenwich Village-born Collier was taken prisoner by Stonewall Jackson's men in 1861 at the Battle of Harper's Ferry. His comment on the current war: "Hitler's head should be chopped...