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...cross between a tabloid and a magazine, came out during the strike. PM did not capitalize on the situation by turning itself into a real newspaper, but succeeded in quadrupling its 150,000 circulation by being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced to depend for most of its news on radio stations, which expanded newscasts and quoted from comics...
Already the season's most controversial play, Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth (TIME, Nov. 30) last week started a louder controversy concerning its source. In the Saturday Review of Literature Sarah Lawrence College's Joseph Campbell and Reader's Digest Editor Henry Morton Robinson blasted Wilder's account of the human race as "an Americanized recreation, thinly disguised, of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...with our pictures on the front of The Ladies' Home Journal, and articles in Reader's Digest, and our pictures in the local papers-and Mrs. Harry Hopkins doing it-my, my, us poor sore-footed Nurse's Aides find we are morons...
...still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...
...Research Director Charles Kettering, who collaborated in developing the fever cabinet used in the so-called "one-day cure" for early syphilis. Dr. Kendall is in charge of fever therapy at the hospital. Also present was Author Paul de Kruif, who presented the cure in the Reader's Digest (TIME, Sept. 14) and helped the new hospital get its funds...