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...into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because the Christian Fronter also buys soap." Next he smacked the lordly commentators. "Four destroyers went down the ways a couple of days ago. They weren't built...
...tightly held military secret. Last time a figure was officially announced for the Army's size at the end of 1942 was in January-3,600,000. Estimates for the eventual size have ranged up to 10,000,000. But last week Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson testified before a Congressional committee that in an "Army of 6,000,000" not all the officers would be the "very best material." Newspapers pounced on the figure as news-but the U.S. well knew the Army might not stop there...
Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...
Captain Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) relegated the war news to second place one day last week in order to defend his honor. His four-column lead story announced the News's willingness to reprint (at regular advertising rates) the advertisement attacking Patterson, his cousin Colonel McCormick and Hearst for "your endless carping, spreading of unease, your constant spittle of suspicion of our Government and Allies...
...could raise the necessary $1,850 for a News ad, Friends of Democracy Inc., which sponsored the ad (but got only the San Francisco Chronicle to publish it), intended to accept Patterson's offer...