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...object of their feverish search was the April 14 edition of Newsweek magazine, which the 'Poon' editors had hoped to make different from any copy the public had ever seen before. No real issue of course, this was merely the Ibisters' way of reviving their old "Parodies" series, which has in the past included the New Yorker, the Alumni Bulletin, and Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
Crimson readers show cosmopolitan urban characteristics in placing the New Yorker in number one slot as the most popular magazine on the stands, with Life and Time also selling out every week. Newsweek and the various digests are poor sellers; among the coolly received latter class, however, DeWitt Wallace's Pleasantville, New York, publication ranks first...
...interspersed throughout the magazine; the addition of such well-known writers as Vincent Sheean and Teodore H. ("Thunder Out of China") White; the more striking cover--all should serve to increase its popularity. Lessor-known, but highly competent journalists, including UN news-covering Jane Bedell and a former Newsweek editor Thomas Whiteside, have been added as assistant editors...
When this story reached Elliott, he got on a high horse, rode off in all directions. To the U.P., he said that Newsweek had erred because it "does not carry the story in full." He accused U.S. Embassy officials of a "put-up job." To the A.P. he exculpated the Embassy. Meanwhile Ambassador Bedell Smith had reported Elliott's remarks to Washington...