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...home suburb of Bloomfield Hills, 20 miles outside Detroit, Adman MacManus assembled the delegates in the auditorium of beautiful St. Hugo of the Hills Church (which he and his wife gave to the archdiocese in memory of his two sons). There he presented his big idea: a merging of all Catholic diocesan weeklies into one big national Sunday newspaper, complete with foreign correspondents, big wire services, comics, society and sports pages-''in short, a national newspaper THEODORE MACMANUS Out of many weeklies, one Sunday? edited as Catholic newspapers ought to be edited...
...spur-of-the-moment scheme was Adman MacManus'. Long had he talked it to leading churchmen and tycoons, now claims backing of $2,000,000. There is much enthusiasm among the hierarchy, says Promoter MacManus, about his scheme...
Less enthusiastic was the reaction of the Catholic editors, in particular such liberal editors as Anthony John Beck of the Archdiocese-owned Michigan Catholic. They suspected that one of MacManus' central purposes might be to crack down on pro-labor tendencies in a large section of the Catholic press...
...Adman MacManus' proposed newspaper "would guard against destructive political liberalism which comes in attractive intellectual disguises from universities, and enters sneakingly by way of factory doors...
Catholic liberal editors admitted that there was not much they could do about it if church leaders should give MacManus the go-ahead. MacManus' self-styled "No 1 Man" is Frank Jacob Mullen, who lately resigned as top ad salesman for the Satevepost to promote MacManus' proposed Catholic newspaper merger. Said he: "It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference what editors think...