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...three members of the Psychology Department, the "Rumor Clinic," a column appearing in the Boston Traveler, is aimed not so much at disproving all the rumors that come along, which would obviously be an impossible task, but more at making the public rumor conscious, according to Robert H. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, one of the editors himself...
...Rumors are sent in by mail to the paper," Knapp said, "and we select and disprove a certain number each day. Of course there are many we can't handle," he pointed out, "such as stories about the Army and the Navy, and other matters that are supposed to be secret. We have scores of tales, for instance," he said, "about the whereabouts and the use of the Queen Mary, but we haven't followed any of them...
...beginning of the war, Knapp revealed, many of the rumors were of the so-called "wishful" type, optimistic stories that Hitler would die within a year, that Germany would be defeated, and a hundred and one other topics that people wanted to hear...
Backer of This Week is old (77) Joseph Palmer Knapp, son of the founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., chief stockholder of Crowell Publishing Co., who also owns Alco-Gravure, world's biggest rotogravure printers, which makes a "modest" profit printing This Week. Its editor is Mrs. William Brown Meloney (mother of Novelist William Brown Meloney), 59, tiny, fragile, grey-haired, who now edits the magazine from her suite in the Waldorf-Astoria. In her 40-year career, "Missy" Meloney has been editor of Everybody's, Delineator, the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer...
...without reason did Crowell's board chairman, Joseph Palmer Knapp, call her "the best man in the business...