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When he is pulling a fast one, Adolf Hitler likes to put on a show of force near the scene of operations. Berlin is 300 miles from Bratislava. Early this week the Führer announced that in midweek there would be a huge military parade in Vienna to celebrate the first anniversary of his entry after Anschluss. Vienna is exactly 34 miles from Bratislava...
...midweek the triple murder mystery had reached such a news-picture frenzy that decent, practical, socialite Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid News, with front and back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures...
When swart, crinkle-haired Monte Ferris Bourjaily gave up his job as General Manager for United Feature Syndicate six months ago and announced that he was taking over Midweek Pictorial from the New York Times, to give the U. S. its first weekly picture magazine, the publishing profession wondered about two things: Whose money was he using? What would he make of the Times's old photographic byproduct...
...fondest hopes and their presses' best capacity, from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than a million this week, Monte Bourjaily perceived that he had missed the market that was waiting for a U. S. pictorial weekly. Last week he announced that he would give Midweek Pictorial not death, but a whiff of anesthetic. He would discontinue its publication until such time as he could "give it a new dress and format...
...monthly field was thus left wide open. Monte Bourjaily immediately stepped in and bought Judge from its printers (Kable Bros, of Mt. Morris, Ill.). Last week he was able to report that Judge's circulation was up to 252.750 to which he would for the time being add Midweek Pictorial's 32,750 subscribers, devoting himself solely to "the concept that in a world torn with strife, a laugh is the best palliative...