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Shortly before midnight one night last week the ten-car Presidential Special, bearing President Roosevelt, some 25 newspapermen, 20 cameramen and photographers, about 40 members of the Presidential party, roared out of Washington northwestward along the Potomac. There had been nothing like it in 1920. Franklin Roosevelt was off on his non-political defense inspection tour of the important political States of Ohio and Pennsylvania, where Wendell Willkie had passed the week before. No estimates agreed on the number that turned out to cheer the President; but there were millions. No commentators agreed on the political advantage to the President...
Last week fog settled down a little closer around the darkling Axis. Herbert L. Matthews, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, one of the last newspapermen who contrived to cable anything from an Axis capital besides official communiques, was given ten days in which to get out of Italy...
...Fifth Avenue office of Lecture Impresario William Colston Leigh next morning Newspapermen Knickerbocker and Sheean turned the tables on their own profession: granted an interview to the press. Like visiting diplomats (Sheean this week starts a ten-week lecture tour, Knickerbocker next week starts a four-month tour), they sat behind Mr. Leigh's massive desk and answered questions, while a dozen reporters leaned against the walnut-paneled walls...
...deny that they wrote J'Accuse! The book is a lurid charge that most of France's political and military leaders were traitors-those who were not were dupes. A good deal of the charge is based on whispers from Senators, confidences from Cabinet Ministers, tips from newspapermen...
These are only the beginning of a round of dinners at which the Nieman follows will meet to discuss contemporary issues with noted newspapermen, publishers, professors, and politicians. On Thursday, October 3, the guest of honor will be Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of New York's new newspaper, P.M. Other guests slated for dinners this fall are Joseph W. Alsop, Washington commentator; Roy E. Larsen, publisher of Life and president of Time, Inc.; and Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian...