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Managing editor: beefy, stogie-smoking, 47-year-old George ("Ash") De Witt, fired three weeks ago (the second time in five years) from the managing editorship of the Washington Times-Herald. His qualifications: 19 years' Chicago experience with Hearst's now-defunct Chicago Herald & Examiner; a plugging talent for local news; five years' experience under Colonel McCormick's temperamental cousin Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, publisher of the Times-Herald...
...Wild shorthanded in the News Office, for after his four years in College and his period of service under Wild, Munro knew more about the University than many a dean. Since his undergraduate days, when he served as editorial chairman of the CRIMSON and later as President of now defunct Harvard Journal, Munro has been engaged in journalism...
...freezing winter in Manhattan he went back to Manila for good. Said he: "I can make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have to." In 1908, for one peso (50?), he bought name, good will and subscription list of a defunct weekly. In the beginning he was its entire editorial and business staff. He upset the American colony (and once was threatened with deportation) because he insisted on giving Filipinos their just dues in U.S.-Filipino squabbles. But the Free Press soon gained a respectful audience...
...York Times, which since 1936 has been disposing of its subsidiaries-Mid-Week Pictorial (now defunct), Current History, the Annalist, its rotogravure plant-last week disposed of Wide World Photos, Inc. The buyer: A.P., whose picture service now has only two major competitors, Acme and International. ^ Current History has been through a series of mergers in which it became the graveyard of such once famous magazines as Century and the Forum, last week was merged again with the monthly Events...
...veritable spray of buck-passing. On Capitol Hill happy members rolled out the pork barrel, singing a song of defense. The House Rivers & Harbors Committee, traditional Congressional gravy boat (composed of members who never let their right hands know what their lefts are doing), last week dusted off the defunct old $150,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, named it a defense project, urged an authorization. Other measures were...