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...full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post had jumped about 110,000 and the Journal-American about 70,000. The early evening edition of the morning Herald Tribune was believed to have sold about 40,000 extra papers daily. How many of the World-Telegram and Sun's 600,000 pre-strike readers had been lured away for good was anybody's guess...
Early Bird. In the impasse, New Yorkers, thirsting for war news, lapped up Hearst's Journal-American, and the tabloid Post. Wall Streeters were also sending out for the Newark (N.J.) News, the only nearby afternoon paper that prints the complete stock market tables. All that the W-T & S could offer were daily sports broadcasts with this hopeful commercial: "Brought to you by the New York World-Telegram and Sun-a newspaper worth waiting...
Hearst's New York Journal-American ran an equally inaccurate scare head (RUSSIANS JOIN FIGHT). On the other hand, many a paper ran optimistic "reliable reports" that also turned out to be untrue. First Blood. For some of these early inaccuracies and confusions, the newspapers could be excused: when war came...
...Only Defense. Mrs. McCullough, cheered on by Society Columnist Igor Cassini ("Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American), Columnists George Sokolsky, Westbrook Pegler, Bill Cunningham and Radiorator Fulton Lewis Jr., and backed by some $28,000 (mostly in small bills) from thousands of sympathizers, had made the only defense she could: that her charge of pro-Communism against Adler and Draper was the truth...
...other newspapers, and most of them like him very much indeed. Professor Mark Van Doren has read Smith's columns to his Columbia University English classes. Humorist Frank Sullivan rates Smith "a humorist of purest ray serene." Smith's friendly rival on the New York Journal-American, Frank Graham, who travels south every year with Red to cover spring baseball training, calls him, "the country's best sports writer...