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...bearing somewhat to the right of Warren Gamaliel Harding. Last week, after twelve years, the editor's chair at the News finally had a tenant. "I've been looking for years to find a man like him." chortled Gene Pulliam, 71. "I've combed the whole goddam country. There are lots of good journalists around, but they're all cockeyed left-wingers...
...Finest Goddam Articles." Finally, Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall produced the truth. According to Newhall, it was not fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...
Someone once asked Harold Ross, founder, editor, and professionally terrible-tempered boss of The New Yorker, what would become of the magazine after his death. "It will go its own goddam way, I guess," he replied. Ross was not quite right. Last week, nine years after his death from cancer, The New Yorker was still trying to go Ross's way. But one vital element was missing: the quality of editorial goddamishness that Ross himself gave the magazine...
...Manager Walter Alston confines his criticism of Howard to such laconic reproaches as, "Wait until you see the ball before you swing." Shrugs hard-bitten Veteran Outfielder Carl Furillo: "Now it's all brotherly love with the Dodgers. I've got to pat the head of some goddam busher who'll take my job away...
...syrup, is sometimes called one of the twelve best U.S. salesmen, has hiked Parade's circulation from 2,000,000 to nearly 10 million, its gross from $1,800,000 to $25 million. He considers it his duty in his new job "to get the membership off its goddam duff, and doing more about pushing the chamber's activities." An inveterate speechmaker (125 a year), he lost no time last week in starting on a 200,000-mile hard-sell air trip to stir up chamber members...