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...bulletin boards in The New Yorker's drab Manhattan office last week went a notice: "William Shawn has accepted the position of editor of The New Yorker, effective today." The announcement, signed by Raoul Fleischmann, the publishing company's president and largest stockholder, came as no surprise. As second in command under the late editor, Harold Ross, 44-year-old Shawn was his natural successor, although outwardly he is as different from Ross as The New Yorker is from the National Geographic...
...week were some strange partners. The C.I.O. Autoworkers' Boss Walter Reuther and other auto-union leaders sat with General Motors' President Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson, Michigan's Governor Mennen Williams and top auto executives. Across the table sat mobilization Directors Charles Edward Wilson and Manly Fleischmann. The automen, union officials and governor had teamed up to protest cutbacks in auto production...
Cutbacks had already put 125,000 people out of work in the Detroit area. DPAdministrator Fleischmann warned there would be more-and unexpected-cuts soon. Word got out that he plans to cut auto output from 1,000,000 cars in the first quarter of 1952 to 800,000 cars in the second. Furthermore, Fleischmann would give automakers only enough copper for 640,000 cars. If the new slash goes through, said the automen, unemployment in the industry would double. Said G.M.'s "Engine Charlie" Wilson: "It would amount to a political, economic and social crime...
...would hit hardest in an election year. Wilson promised to appoint a task force to study Detroit's problem, and see if he couldn't give the auto industry more metal in the second quarter. But when it came right down to it, said DPA's Fleischmann, "the choice is between autos and ammunition...
...Supplies. The Interior Department acceded to Fleischmann's request, and power negotiations with Anaconda-Harvey were begun. There was one thing that Fleischmann did not mention in his letter, and reporters were quick to take him up on it. What about the wartime charges against the Harvey company? Said Fleischmann: "The reason that I am canceling the Harvey loan contract ... is not as a result of any finding on my part of moral turpitude or unfitness on the part of the Harvey company, [but] because we felt that such a large loan was not advisable if the aluminum could...