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Under sentence of death, Manhattan's PM had won three reprieves from Owner Marshall Field. Last week, he finally found a buyer. He sold a "majority interest" in his tabloid to San Francisco Lawyer Bartley C. Crum and Joseph Barnes, foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. They were mum on how much they paid-and who was backing them. But they said they had "adequate" cash to continue PM, now losing $15,000 a week. (Minority Stockholder Field will still foot part of the loss...
...Publisher Crum and Editor Barnes moved into PM's modest home in the produce district of lower Manhattan, they front-paged an appeal: "Don't expect to see a new name right away, or a new format, or an entirely different typography . . . There will be many changes, but they will be gradual . . . aimed at a full coverage of news and an independent editorial policy." Translated Bart Crum: "We are absolutely uncommitted to anybody." But the policy will be left of center...
Corporations & Crusades. As a team, Crum & Barnes had much in common. They had labored for many a cause, including Wendell Willkie's. Both were eager, intense men, and neither was wealthy...
...Bartley Cavanaugh Crum is still boyish, slick-haired, talkative and leftish. Once a cub on the Sacramento Bee, he was a U.P. stringer on the Berkeley campus of the University of California ('22), then spent 14 years in the office of Hearst Attorney John Francis Neylan before striking out for himself. Now a high-priced corporation lawyer, Bart Crum has found time to ride off on many a leftist crusade. His latest: counsel for Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" writers and producers...
Barnes, who at present is Foreign Affairs editor of the New York Herald Tribune, together with Bartley, C. Crum, bought controlling interest in the newspaper from Marshall Field, who has owned PM for most of the eight years of its existence, a release announced yesterday...