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...from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing as grist for Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting about his red suspenders ("They're cute"). The Journal also came...
Died. Seymour Berkson, 53, publisher (since 1955) of the New York Journal-American, longtime (1945-55) vice president and general manager of the International News Service; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune) thought it "a sober and handsome monument... enormously impressive." Richard Watts (Post) called it "a fine drama" with "stunning performances," and John Chapman (Daily News) wrote, "A magnificent production of a truly splendid play." John McLain (Journal-American) went so far as to say, "The best play of this or many seasons... reaches heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the recent history of the American stage." John Mason Brown '23 did this one better by exclaiming, "Never such greatness in the theatre--not since Mourning Becomes Electra, Green Pastures or Our Town...
Died. Martene Windsor (Bill) Corum, 63, syndicated New York Journal-American sports columnist, president of Louisville's Churchill Downs race track, network commentator for major boxing events and the World Series; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Bill Corum started out with the New York Times, went over to Hearst in 1925. That year he saw his first Kentucky Derby, from then on advertised the race so fondly in his columns that when Colonel Matt Winn died in 1949 Corum found that he had written his way into the presidency of Churchill Downs...
...morning Times (circ. 633,106), Mirror (890,596), News (2,014,542), Herald Tribune (377,400); the afternoon Journal-American (580,006), World-Telegram and Sun (473,732), Post (351,439), Long Island Press (283,967), and Long Island Star-Journal...