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...would boss the bosses next? An "executive editorial board" will try, with six $1-a-month members (John Hersey, Clifton Fadiman, Annalee Jacoby, J. D. Ratcliff, Gjon Mili, George Biddle). Over them will be a paid editor named Lawrence Lee, promoted from '47's literary editor. In theory, he can veto the board's decisions...
...radio game. When other networks feared to transcribe big nighttime shows, ABC risked it; last week ABC's transcribed Bing Crosby show got one of the top Hooperatings: 25.8. Last fall a quick-thinking young ABC executive jumped to the phone the moment he finished reading John Hersey's Hiroshima in the New Yorker, got exclusive broadcast privileges for ABC from the magazine. This week Hiroshima won ABC a Peabody Award (see below...
...Awards (radio's annual "Oscars") were handed out. The chief winners: ABC's Comic Henry Morgan, CBS's Columbia Workshop, NBC's Orchestras of the Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System-which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program...
Three hundred and fifty U.S. writers and artists had pooled their dollars and their talents to put out a magazine they could call their own (TIME, July 1). There were salable names among them: Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Lippmann, Hersey, Fadiman, Gropper. The editors boldly promised "stories, experiences and ideas these great writers and illustrators have always yearned to tell you." This week the pocket-sized magazine's first issue appeared on the stands. Its name (which it hopes to change annually...
...specter of World War III was conjured up by writer after writer on the atomic bomb, notably John Hersey in the laconic, harrowing Hiroshima; and also by the New Yorker's E. B. White in his earnest tract, The Wild Flag; by Sumner Welles in Where Are We Heading?; by a long series of pro-or anti-Soviet special pleaders. Probably the standout pro-Soviet pleading of the year was Soviet Politics by Williams Professor Frederick L. Schuman. The most widely read (75,000 copies) attack: I Chose Freedom, by disillusioned Soviet functionary Victor Kravchenko...