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...because he was so young and gullible-looking, he thought, that sneaky little men in the Paris streets kept trying to sell him dirty postcards. Anyhow, "after studying the matter, I bought a pair of spats and a cane, and started growing a small mustache," wrote Paul Scott Mowrer, 35 years later. With this protective disguise, he settled down to cover France for the Chicago Daily News. His specific instructions were: look for lively feature stories, and don't write about European politics unless you absolutely have...
Paul Scott Mowrer, veteran foreign correspondent and editor of the New York Post's new Paris edition, last week addressed a group of U.S. officers in Paris. They were worried by growing French antipathy to them and to all Americans. Said Mowrer...
Transatlantic Piece. Last week, hot from Le Matin's old presses, came the first 50,000-copy edition of a new four-page tabloid, the Paris Post. Directing the operations were: 1) Editor Paul Scott Mowrer, dean of the writing Mowrers (others: brother Edgar Ansel and son Richard); 2) Homburg-hatted General Manager Robert Pell, late of the State Department. Their assignment: to publish a newspaper wholly independent of the New York Post but voicing the same New Dealish views...
...Editor Mowrer, a 39-year veteran of the Chicago Daily News, had performed a publishing miracle in getting out the paper. In shortage-plagued Paris, everything - typewriters, furniture, telephones - was a problem. Paper had to be wangled from a French monopoly already besieged by French publishers. Every member of the 26-man staff, ten of them Americans, had gone through hell & high water before he could get passports and transportation or release from the service...
Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...