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...Clapper had New Deal leanings that did not blind him to New Deal faults; his prose was not always exciting but his words were usually scrupulously fair. These qualities are shared by his good friend Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 48, Washington bureau chief since 1934 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose kettledrum voice frequently rattles the gimcracks on Franklin Roosevelt's desk when he rumbles out an embarrassing question at Presidential press conferences...
...last 20 years of his life secretaries read the paper to him). Financially, he inherited only one-tenth of the Pulitzer publishing estate. Brothers Ralph (now dead) and Herbert got the prize, the late, great New York World, and lost it. Joe got the backwater St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
This week, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., publisher of a newspaper that is now considered one of the nation's half-dozen best, invited his 1,152 staff members, and about a hundred Post-Dispatch alumni, to come to his 60th birthday party (champagne, breast of chicken, speeches...
...London dispatch to the New York Times said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
This rosy news left Canadians goggle-eyed. Actually, Reporter Banner's dispatch was just flapdoodle. Cigarets, in plenty, there are. But Canada's butter ration is 6 oz. a week (and there is no margarine). Liquor is severely rationed in every province. In mid-February, coal was so scarce the Government restricted deliveries, gave priorities to householders with seven days' supply or less. Because of anticipated increases in Europe's needs, the Government last week was reportedly considering resumption of meat rationing. The manufacture of evening dresses, double-breasted coats and pleated trousers is prohibited...