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...Hearstwhile earnings the Boettigers had bought newsless shopping papers in both Seattle and Phoenix, set out to convert the Arizona paper into a daily. They stepped it up to two issues a week, then three, then six; they built a news staff, took on columns (by Walter Lippmann, Hedda Hopper, Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna...
...read with great interest your report of Colonel McCormick's Hollywood visit [TIME, March 31]. I was also very surprised at the caption under the picture: "Hostess Hopper, Guest McCormick, Admirer Sinatra." Hasn't Mr. Sinatra always claimed to be a great liberal? It seems to me that being a liberal and being an admirer of Colonel McCormick are incongruous. Of course, it might be that Miss Hopper's power of the press is too strong for Mr. Sinatra...
...Colonel remembered that Columnist Hedda Hopper, an employee of his Chicago Tribune-Daily News syndicate, had long promised to open his eyes if he would visit the gilded city. On his one trip to Hollywood, 15 years ago, it had rained constantly and he had since thought of the town, if at all, as a damp offshoot of the Land of Oz. But he still liked to have his eyes opened...
After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
...networks would have to do better than that. Already in the congressional hopper was a bill asking for an investigation of radio's crime shows. The thought of all this bad publicity was enough to fill the dreams of radiomen with 17 kinds of screams...