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...read with great interest your report of Colonel McCormick's Hollywood visit [TIME, March 31]. I was also very surprised at the caption under the picture: "Hostess Hopper, Guest McCormick, Admirer Sinatra." Hasn't Mr. Sinatra always claimed to be a great liberal? It seems to me that being a liberal and being an admirer of Colonel McCormick are incongruous. Of course, it might be that Miss Hopper's power of the press is too strong for Mr. Sinatra...
...Hamblett, A. Ruby, C. Wharton; 880-yard run--J. Edelman, D. Groshong, H. Mason, T. Withington; one-mile run--F. Gurley, J. Kenny, J. Kent, W. Lyon; two-mile run--J. Noble, W. O'Connor, H. Rosenfeld, T. Walnut; 120-yard high hurdles--W. Flint, H. Kendall, P. McCormick; 220-yard low hurdles--W. Flint, P. McCormick...
...play's average American hero is Smith, a newspaperman. The average American villain is his employer, a publisher named Charles MacPherson, who is a mixed incarnation of Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired...
...Totalitarian arguments," huffed Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. A work of amateurs and professors, said Wilbur Forrest, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (which the report had criticized as a do-nothing group). But Forrest's own paper, the New York Herald Tribune (he is its assistant editor) argued that the commission's findings could not be dismissed as "mere professional whimsy." Said the Trib: the press does have a responsibility to its public, a responsibility that outweighs a publisher's caprices, and "this responsibility is often neglected or flouted...
...left the hors d'oeuvres table for the last time, Bertie McCormick was most appreciative. "Hedda," he said, grandly, "a wonderful party...