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...thing's grown to something quite enormous," said white-haired, spinsterish Kingsley Martin, editor of London's socialist New Statesman and Nation...
Some months ago, when Henry Wallace had taken over the editorship of the New Republic, Kingsley Martin had sent a routine congratulatory note and asked Wallace to come to England some time as his guest. When Wallace accepted, the "thing" had begun to grow. Martin had to turn over his own secretary to cope with the invitations for speeches; he assigned a special man to press relations...
...King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King and Queen have a sufficiently burdensome job without this tomfool buildup...
...several would still have their say. The big national press, moved by generosity and a chance to grab some good features, promptly offered them space. Editor Kingsley Martin's New Statesman would talk to more people than its usual 75,000 in the News Chronicle, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Pictorial and the Sunday Observer (combined circ.: five million), each of which promised to carry one or another Statesman feature. But the offers were not enough to still...
Watt's committee will include John McC. Howison '47, of Dunster House and Bogata, Texas; Henry McN. Jones '45, of Adams House and New York City; and Lloyd S. Gilmour '49, of Straus Hall and Glen Head, Long Island. Harold W. Smith '44 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, presidents of the Advocate in 1942 and 1943 respectively, will act as advisers to the committee...