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Stocky, square-jawed Duke K. McCall was a hard-hitting guard on the Furman University (Greenville, S.C.) football team, since 1937 has been a hard-hitting minister. As secretary of the executive committee of the 6,700,000-member Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Baptist group, Dr. McCall was lately sent to report on African missions. From Nigeria last week he bluntly warned that in Africa, as in Asia, white missionaries are now needed not as officers but in the ranks. Wrote Dr. McCall...
From Look Magazine's Madison Avenue office to McCall's sanctum on Park Avenue is only a short, six-block walk. Lately, Look's top brass have been taking it. Three weeks ago, Look's redhaired, square-jawed Executive Editor Daniel Danforth Mich, 45, sauntered over to McCall's as editorial director. After him last week went Henry Ehrlich, 38, who quit as Look's managing editor, took the same title at McCall...
Both men were hired by McCall's able, shrewd Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese, as part of his campaign to crowd the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 4,200,000) off the roost as top-hen in the U.S. women's magazine field. By snatching Eleanor Roosevelt from the Journal (TIME, June 13, 1949), Wiese picked up 200,000 in circulation last year. Though still 500,000 behind the Journal, he expects to pick up more circulation by a shift in policy which Mich and Ehrlich will carry...
This week, in line with Mich's job to give McCall's more entertainment as well as more articles on current problems, he opened a bureau in Hollywood. Said Mich: "I want to help women to adjust to this new kind of warlike world without going nutty...
Answering a reader who asked if John Roosevelt, 34, president of Lee Pharmacal Co., Inc., isn't a Republican, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in McCall's that he "is one of the members of our family who has no interest whatever in politics ... I notice, however, that [he] . . . has taken considerable interest in his brother James's campaign for the nomination for governor of California ... so he is at least interested in one Democrat...