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Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
...Into whose "New York Post-Dispatch" office each day came "more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife...
Citation: "As the trusted friend and assistant to the President of the United States, with great courage, intelligence, and efficiency you labor without stint to bring to fruition with dispatch the domestic and foreign policies of our national government...
...hero is a newspaperman-"Miss Lonelyhearts" is his only name known to the reader-who writes the lovelorn column for the New York Post-Dispatch. He is one of West's quasi-religious figures: "A beard would become him, would accent his Old Testament look." To the millions without emotional refuge, says one character sardonically, "the Miss Lonelyhearts are the priests of twentieth-century America." The mail brings the daily semiliterate confessions of horror. "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," one letter begins: "I am sixteen years old now and I dont know what to do ... When I was a little girl...
...invitation. "A reporter normally gets interviews," he said. "These are normal times." In fact, the situation was so abnormal that the Journal was forced to run United Press stories on city government developments in Jersey City; new subscriptions had dropped off 70% since the election. The rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 56.825), which had expressed less vigorous opposition to the Murray ticket, not only got the run of City Hall but was expected this week to land the city government's legal advertising, a plum that had long been shared by the two papers. The new administration's most...