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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich and respected Bulletin remembers all too well, there was a time in Philadelphia when nearly everybody didn't read it. A onetime Pittsburgh newsboy named William L. McLean, father of Robert, changed Philadelphia's reading habits. When he borrowed $73,000 to buy the Bulletin in 1895, it was last (circ. 6,700) in a field of 13 dailies. A decade later it was out in front to stay (it now has over 800,000 a day). McLean put it there by giving Philadelphians what they seemed to want: all the news (no matter how trivial), sold...
...special courtesy, young Cyrus L. Sulzberger of the New York Times got a private tour (Russian correspondents at U.N. had visited his uncle's plant some months ago). He noted that Pravda' s acidulous David Zaslavsky, journalistic gadfly of the Western World, is "an amiable man who looks like anybody's favorite grandfather." On the mass tour, the Associated Press's Wes Gallagher found that Peter Pospelov, Pravda's editorial chief, "looks like a member of a Midwestern legislature." Pravda gets 15,000 letters a month from its readers, only 40 or 50 of them...
...VICHY GAMBLE (412 pp.)-William L. Langer-Knopf...
...Roosevelt-Hull policy toward Vichyfrance has been attacked with more fervor than it has been defended. This book is the most thorough and respectable defense the U.S. policy has had. William L. Langer, Harvard's Coolidge Professor of History and wartime chief of the OSS Research and Analysis Branch, concedes that U.S. Vichy policy may have been an unattractive long-shot gamble, but argues that it was "always substantially sound," judged by U.S. interests. And, he says, it paid...
Dean Everett M. Baker of M.I.T. and Arthur L. Williston, Chairman of the Society for the Promotion of Military Training, will join Edwin J. Jacob '47, of the Harvard Debate Council, and Robert E. Kohn '49 in considering the problem. The meeting is open to the public...