Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businesslike Chicago Journal of Commerce ("All the News a Busy Man Has Time to Read") ordinarily gets few letters from its busy readers. But last week the fan mail was steadily trickling in, as it does every time the Journal's professional-bumpkin columnist, Chet Shafer, 59, writes his annual "winter piece." A South Bend pipefitter called it "one of the finest pieces of prose I have ever seen." An attorney on Chicago's La Salle Street: "You nearly break a country boy's heart...
Columnist Shafer, a wise man in his way, explained: "Those successful men like to read about unsuccessful folks whose lives ain't cluttered up." For eleven years the Journal has been tucking away Chet Shafer's daily two or three inches of bucolic "Three Rivers Doings" at the end of its editorials. One week in 1938 an editorial saboteur left it out. Hundreds of businessmen, from Detroit to Omaha, promptly wired, phoned and wrote angry protests. "Three Rivers Doings" has been running ever since...
Corn in the Cage. In the fact-&-figure heavy Journal of Commerce, Shafer's column sticks out like a shock of corn in a bank teller's cage. Its author, brother of Congressman Paul Shafer (R., Mich.), has worked on newspapers from San Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...
Last week their Tribune was ten years old. None of its founders had ever seen a dividend check, but they counted their money and time well spent. The little (circ. 20,000) journal had gradually won a place of influence in British politics and journalism out of all proportion to its circulation or bank balance. Though it ranked well below the Economist or the New Statesman, the Tribune was must reading in Fleet Street and the Ministries...
...belated discovery: the faculty had quietly abolished this classics requirement, beginning next fall. The paper splashed across Page One an "open letter to the trustees" signed by the Exonian's President John Cowles Jr., 17. (Among the trustees is his father, part owner of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and Look.) Young Cowles obviously thought that the faculty's action was a concession to Exeter scholars from poor families...