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...Newspapermen are the best half-educated people in the world; they know a little about everything, and all about nothing." With this frank admission about his profession, Edward E. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal on leave here as a Nieman fellow, urges prospective journalists to spend their college careers "taking as broad a program as possible...
According to Edstrom, increased concentration is taking place in the newspaper business. With fewer papers, he predicts, will come fewer but better job opportunities, and "newspapers are going to be more and more choosy about whom they hire, with college graduates having a definite advantage...
...genial Kentuckian has largely practiced what he preaches about a varied background. Interested in newspaper work from the start, Edstrom began work on a small weekly "throw-away" journal while still at Wayne University in Detroit. He attracted the attention of the metropolitan dailies, moved up to the Detroit Free Press, and after several years, shifted to the Toledo News Beam...
...Edstrom takes greatest pride, however, in the Courier-Journal, the largest liberal paper in the South. A long line of progressive owners and editors has made possible its uniquely independent plank, proving, Edstrom believes, that "honest publishers make honest newspapers, and honest journalism pays in the long...
Sweden. J. Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...