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When the American Newspaper Guild strikes a paper, it usually has to suspend publication. But when Guildsmen struck Publisher Dave Stern's New Dealing Philadelphia Record and Camden (NJ.) Courier-Post, a handful of loyal executives volunteered to put out all three papers. This week the 33-day-old strike was still on, but Stern's papers had not missed an edition. Said Record Editor Harry Saylor: "It was tough at first but it's getting to be pretty easy to do. Any newspaper in the country could...
...newsmen knew, the job was not the cinch that Editor Saylor made it out. At the Record, where 435 Guildsmen were out, a dozen men were putting out four regular editions. In Camden half as many put out both the morning Post and evening Courier, working staggered shifts from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Before the strike the job had kept 70 people busy. The papers used plenty of wire association copy, covered big local stories by telephone...
...both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired. We're getting as much sleep as we always did. We're just giving up our spare time." Shrewd Dave Stern...
When Herbert Sebastian Agar, Pulitzer-Prize winning author (The People's Choice), got his discharge from the Navy, he had a good job awaiting him. After four years' leave, he could return to edit Publisher Barry Bingham's prosperous Louisville Courier-Journal. But this week Agar turned up with a smaller platform to speak from and he was happy about it, too. In January, he will become the British Isles editor of Freedom & Union, Clarence Streit's small, earnest voice of federal world-government (TIME, Sept...
Back to Britain. Long before the war (1929-34), Agar had been in London as freelancer, literary editor of the English Review and correspondent for the Courier-Journal. When the Courier's owner Robert Bingham was sent to England as Ambassador by F.D.R., he and son Barry enthusiastically plotted Agar's future, made him a C-J columnist in 1935, editor in 1940. In 1942 he resigned to join the Navy (he had been an enlisted man in World...