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...minor journalistic coup. North American Newspaper Alliance crowed that on March 8 it would release (in the New York Times and 50 other papers) 18 excerpts from the wartime diaries of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Doubleday & Co., which had sold pieces of the Nazi propagandist's day-by-day jottings to the syndicate, had also scored a coup: Doubleday's 200,000-word version would be the Book-of-the-Month Club selection (700,000 copies...
...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...
...Doubleday had few answers. It said that the diaries had gone unrecognized in Berlin until they fell into the hands of a civilian military government employee. He had turned them over to Frank Earl Mason, a onetime Hearst executive and ex-vice president of NBC, now head of Fireside Press, a small Manhattan publishing house. Mason had turned them over to Doubleday to publish. When Alien Property Boss David Bazelon asked Mason to tell his story of the diaries, Mason replied that he was "too busy" to discuss it for a month...
...found the log of the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. Also in the Hoover party were Louis Lochner, prewar A.P. bureau chief in Berlin, and Hugh Gibson, onetime ambassador to Belgium. Lochner translated the diaries for Mason, and Gibson is an editorial adviser to Doubleday. The original manuscript is now in the possession of Herbert Hoover's war library at Stanford...
Once upon a time Charles O. Gorham was publicity chief of the biggest U.S. book publisher (Doubleday). Now he has set out to do for the publishing business what Frederic Wakeman has done for the "hucksters." The result is The Gilded Hearse, a novel which Doubleday is not publishing...