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Stars & Stripes' G.I. readers in Occupied Germany were entranced by the picture of the loudmouthed woman with a face full of meringue. Last week, 64 of them asked New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Lewis Gannett to find the St. Joseph pie-wielder, tell her to get on with her good work. They collected $7.50 to buy bigger and squashier lemon pies...
Thus cabled New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Lewis Gannett. A suburban book critic turned war correspondent, Gannett is himself an amateur formicologist. When he arrived in Maastricht last fortnight, the burghers poured into his sympathetic ears the whole ant story...
...internationalist-minded audience heartily booed the isolationist names including the McCormick, Patterson, Gannett and Hearst press...
John Chamberlain called it "the first real book-length introduction to what war can mean to a peace-loving people." Lewis Gannett said its pages are "the most graphic, factual, frightened and frightening picture of frontline battle I have yet seen in print." Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle found it "one of the most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote...
...what roads had Sparks, Briggs, and the Secretary of the Interior come to this imbroglio? Sparks, once mayor of Akron, had managed Frank E. Gannett's 1939-40 Presidential campaign. Briggs, once a newspaperman, later a political "dopester" for a handful of Minnesota business firms, handled the northern midwest area of the Gannett campaign under Sparks. When Gannett lost, Briggs changed camps. He became a pal of the Democrats. Ickes, asked by reporters last week if the story was true that he had met Briggs through Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly, replied...