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...second week of his campaign, pushing down the West Coast, Tom Dewey fought on in cold, logical and precise fashion. He had a difficult task: to be New Dealish enough to hold the vote of all those who do not want a reactionary administration but are weary of New Deal mismanagements; yet to attack powerfully enough to please those who are just plain mad at Franklin Roosevelt...
...Harold Ickes lit into Dewey in characteristic vein. "Four years ago,"he cracked, "I observed that Mr. Dewey had thrown his diaper into the ring. At Los Angeles on Friday night, when he upbraided the New Deal for not being New Dealish enough, he threw the sponge after his diaper...
...four years Marshall Field has poured more than $10,000,000 into his papers: New York City's pinkish PM, the New Dealish Chicago Sun and the politically colorless syndicated Sunday supplement Parade. This week he was getting a few tiny drops in return. Parade, least talked about but most widely read, was the first Field publication to go into the black. (Field's reported investment is $1½ millions...
This week a columnist who does not want to be syndicated published a professional newsman's appraisal of many of those who are. Columnist Charles Eugene Fisher writes a seriocomic, largely localized column for the New Dealish Philadelphia Record. His new book is a 317-page work of love and research, The Columnists (Howell, Soskin Publishers, Inc.; $2.50). Says he by way of introduction...
Died. Samuel Emory Thomason, 61, publisher of Chicago's lusty New Dealish tabloid Daily Times and the Tampa Tribune; of a heart attack; in Tampa, Fla. An old college friend of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could...