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Among all the U.S. newsmen who were put on the pan in Britain last week (see INTERNATIONAL), the hottest fire was reserved for E. T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press (circ. 277,347), most prosperous of the Scripps-Howard chain of 19 papers. After a month's stay in Britain exploring the economic crisis, Leech had turned out a series of articles which started running in 30 U.S. papers last week. Despite the newsprint shortage, most London dailies also devoted precious space to Leech's report, while the pro-Labor press rapped him as a "poison...
County Prosecutor Patrick M. Steele in Tacoma reports MacLeech is also known as Burt S. Leech, and that he married in Bulgaria in 1936, in Arizona in 1940, and again in South Carolina in 1943. While still married to all three, Steele states, MacLeech started separation actions against his first wife in Seattle, at which time the alleged perjury was committed...
Pittsburgh already has two Sunday papers: Hearst's Sun-Telegraph (circ. 600,000) and the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 500,000). They politely doubted that there was room for three. Editor E. T. Leech of the Press welcomed the newcomer with a warning: it would start "under a heavy handicap ... in a race in which economic factors make it almost certain that only two can finish...
...writer's wife feels that Saxon's tyrannical influence is lousing up her home life, and takes a tearful step toward Reno. But after a series of contretemps, Saxon's theatrical enterprises crash, the novelist nimbly leaps aside to the arms of his missus--and Saxon latches on leech-like to another victim...
Last week the Press was at it again. Editor Edward T. Leech figured that the petitions for Henry Wallace's Progressive Party would make news. He was right: by week's end the Press had published 3,752 names, had a few thousand more to go, and was snowed under with protests and praise. It had a growing file of signers who said there had been some mistake (they thought it was a petition for Palestine partition, or against the city anti-smoke law, or against war; two confessed that "I was drunk at the time...