Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascol's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National Review...
Died. Rex Smith, 58, world-roving, hard-living journalist and author; onetime (1937-41) editor of Newsweek, where he revamped editorial policy, helped push circulation from 190,000 to 450,000; editor of the Chicago Sun (1941-42); Vice President of American Airlines in charge of Public Relations (1946-58); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...result: disappointment. When F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon the magazine Today, which Astor had founded along with F.D.R. Braintruster Raymond Moley to boost F.D.R., was calling the Hudson Valley neighbor "an irresponsible radical." Today merged in 1937 with Newsweek, in which Astor held the controlling 60%-plus interest...
...mind and history of America. On the Right there were people like Richard Whitney of the Stock Exchange, more recently of Sing Sing; like Lewis Douglas, in 1952 an Eisenhower Republican; J. P. Morgan, Jr.; Raymond Moley who can now be found on the inside back page of Newsweek; an early anti-communist of the Dies-McCarthy school named William A. Wirt; plus Father Coughlin, Col. Lindbergh, Bernard Baruch, and a host of others. On the Left there were Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Tommy Corcoran, Henry Wallace, and John L. Lewis. These are the people whom...
...critics in the weeklies did not present such a solid front. Life referred to J.B. as "a great play" and "a Broadway triumph." Newsweek found it "a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre.... a newborn classic." Hobe Morrison, writing in Variety, the entertainment trade weekly, spoke of "this exalted drama" and lauded the performers, but hedged, "Whether the show is eloquent and inspiring, or just fairly impressive and remote obviously depends on the individual...