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Well might "MacArthur wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home," or at any other point on our shores; does Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press [TIME, March 15] consider the Hearstian kiss of death any more lethal than the Pendergast kiss of death...
...rest of the U.S. press showed no hurry to get on the bandwagon. And Editor Edward T. Leech of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press felt downright sorry for the Man of the Hour...
...looks as if General Douglas MacArthur has been booby-trapped," Leech mourned in an editorial. "For it is unbelievable that he deliberately would have sought the endorsement which . . . Hearst suddenly dropped down on him. . . . He's too smart to ask for a political kiss of death. . . . Some weird things have happened already in the campaign . . . but nobody else has suffered so extreme an embarrassment as that of becoming 'the Hearst candidate...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Hats off to Editor Leech...