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Within its Reader's Digest format, the Digest prints cartoons and writing culled from newspapers and magazines, unsigned articles of its own, and even a "full-length mystery" called Death Stalks the New Deal. Editor of the Digest is Public Relations Director Clayton Fritchey, 49, of the Democratic National Committee, ex-newsman (Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), onetime administrative assistant to Harry Truman, and press campaign adviser to Adlai Stevenson. While the Democrats are not trying to make money on the Digest, Editor Fritchey estimates it will break even on a circulation...
...bolster the battered Democratic National Committee, Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell named as his deputy ex-Newsman Clayton A. Fritchey, White House administrative assistant who served as adviser to Stevenson headquarters during the campaign. Fritchey's main job: to organize Democratic research and publicity for a unified opposition to the new Administration...
Last week, to nobody's surprise, Editor Fritchey quit his hot spot. But to the amazement of many a Washington newsman, Fritchey hopped on to a still hotter spot. He became the $11,200-a-year head of public information for the Department of Defense, a job that has gone begging for ten months...
...publicity in Washington for the three services. But under Secretary Louis Johnson, the services had managed to take over most of the job, and Johnson himself had handled the rest. The Army, Navy and Air Force now have a plan afoot to run their own publicity shows completely, leaving Fritchey little more than the task of supervising the mimeographing machines...
Defense Secretary George C. Marshall was ready to give Fritchey the power to channel all information about the services through his office. But the three services were bound to fight any such centralization. Sighed one bureaucrat about his new boss: "Fritchey has about as much security as a Kamikaze...