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Baby Talk. When it comes to babies the women of Iowa turn to Myrtle Meyer Eldred, baby expert of The Register and Tribune's own staff, for advice and guidance. Mrs. Eldred's baby column is syndicated in scores of important newspapers outside of Iowa. More mothers ask her what's wrong with their babies' appetites than consult any other woman in the world.es Moines Register and Tribune. (Every week The Sunday Register prints the pictures of a score or more Iowa couples celebrating their golden weddings.) One result: Last year the department editors of The Register and Tribune received...
Bald, scholarly Eugene Meyer, longtime managing director of War Finance Corp., lately the distinguished Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank, had a fight last week in Washington with a red-haired lady. The fight was over Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley and Dick Tracy. The lady was Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, vivacious editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald. Banker Meyer did not fight in person, but as publisher of the Washington Post which he bought at auction last month (TIME. June...
...exclusive contract with the Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While they were still running in the Post last week, the Herald announced the change in full-page advertisements. Such intense journalism might have cowed the Post in the decadent days of the McLean regime, but Publisher Meyer refused to lie down. In Washing ton his lawyers got an order restraining the Herald from printing the features. A court dissolved it. In Manhattan other Post lawyers tried to enjoin the Tribune Co. from selling to the Herald. On the crucial day, Washington newsreaders were treated to an extraordinary...
...lose, a squabble with pontifical Eugene Meyer over a comic strip is precisely the sort of antic that delights publicity-wise "Cissy" Patterson. Her three-year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler...
Vice President of the Post is the publisher's wife, Agnes Elizabeth Meyer, one-time staffmember of the New York Sun. Meanwhile Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, who wanted the Post but was outbid by Publisher Meyer, announced that on July 4 she will start a new Washington paper, a morning tabloid named the Enquirer. Mesdames Meyer and McLean already have stiff feminine competition in energetic Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald...