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...Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...
...nostrils of this ex-newspaperwoman widened when recently she began to hear from such friends as U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran about appalling housing and sanitation conditions and increases in venereal disease and delinquency in war-plant areas and military towns. Mrs. Meyer began to sniff printer's ink again...
Boys and girls in the upper teens are apparently committing more U.S. crimes. There were as yet no conclusive figures. But the nation's newspapers and police-station blotters were daily splashed with lurid ink about the deeds of the generation just too young to fight. Juvenile delinquency rose 10% last year in New York and Chicago, was up to 100% in war-boom towns. Case histories of last week...
Printers' Ink has thus described the Book-of-the-Month Club: "An interesting advertising success story. . . . The selection committee, or Editorial Board, . . . in a way is a consumer jury that passes on the quality of [the] merchandise. . . . Circulation has to be constantly maintained. . . . This situation calls for a continual stream of advertising, which has now reached the cumulative total of $8,500,000. . . . Advertising is thus solely responsible for building and maintaining this business in a field in which it was deemed impossible to carry on a mailorder operation...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. One his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...