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...used to finding Reds under the bed, but this was different. Last week Hearstling Columnist Paul Mallon took an off-duty peek beneath the crazy-quilt of modern art-and jumped. Said he, in an open letter to the boss (which was duly featured, without Mr. Hearst's reply, in the boss's papers...
...Sirs: Why has Paul Mallon been singled out as the only columnist whose total number of papers and circulation you don't print (TIME, March 27) ? . . . Surely, the statistics were as readily available from his syndicate as from those of the other columnists. Could this be a typical bit of "Time-ery" injected into the "news" columns of TIME...
...Hardly. It was injected by Mallon's Hearst bosses, who withheld the figures...
...Paul Mallon (16 Hearst papers and others) consistently reflects the Hearst view. He is "currently engaged by postwar planning at home and abroad. He thinks it stinks. He envisions nothing better than a world of roaring red Communism overseas. . . . He has a remarkable native instinct for fearing that he and his fellows are being jobbed. . . . His protests [are] bolstered by anecdote, rumor and unqualified statements based on what some people think might be going...
Since correspondents' first enthusiasms for Franklin Roosevelt have cooled they realize "how slight is their foothold, how easy it would be, in times of genuine crisis. to ... reduce their freedom to the slender confines of the Constitutional verbiage." When President Roosevelt last year barred Correspondent Paul Mallon from White House press conferences, only one to speak out was the Times's Charles Kurd. Moral is, thinks Clark, that Washington correspondents need an ethical organization like the American Medical Association...