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...side of the war, won the first Pulitzer Prize for reporting. In 1920 Swope was installed as the World's executive editor, and during eight succeeding years he made the World in his own image: argumentative, boisterous and usually entertaining. He gathered a staff that eventually included Walter Lippmann, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, won the paper two more Pulitzer Prizes for its exposes of the Ku Klux Klan and of prison conditions in Florida...
...would enter the homes as a kindly, helpful friend of the family." Under the prod of its new editor, Tom Winship, 45, the Globe has begun to shuck that please-'em-all philosophy. Ads have been dropped from the front page, almost every big syndicated columnist except Walter Lippmann has been signed on, and the new drama and music critics are both caustic and first-class. News stories have become sharper...
...Walter Lippmann wipe out bugs? Possibly. After observing 1,500 tiny European Pyrrhocoris apterus bugs, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Karel Slama and Harvard's Dr. Carroll M. Williams report that a chemical substance in American newsprint prevented these insects from maturing into adults. Strangely, they grew into oversized larvae but could never reproduce...
...biochemists put the insects in contact with pieces of U.S. newspapers, starting with a Walter Lippmann column from the Boston Globe ("That seemed like a good beginning," says Williams) and going on to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. A substance in the wood pulp used to make U.S. newsprint acts much like the juvenile hormone that young bugs secrete. This hormone keeps the bugs immature until they are ready for metamorphosis; only after its flow is stopped can the bugs become adult. When the insects come in contact with the paper, they absorb the hormonelike chemical...
...Lippmann's week. Having suffered a rebuttal of his Far Eastern policy, the columnist also found himself under attack for the policy he proposes in the West. Writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean Acheson quoted Lippmann's advice that the U.S. should leave Europe to the Europeans. Calling this the "grossest error," Acheson recalled that the U.S. was forced to intervene twice this century to settle an "essentially European" war. "Whether the problems be those left unresolved in Central Europe and Germany at the end of the last war; or the control and limitation of armaments...