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...Brown acquired a new editor for Editor & Publisher, quick-tempered, idealistic Marlen Edwin Pew. At 56, with a thoroughgoing newshawk's career behind him, Marlen Pew speaks of his experience as "the most wonderful, glamorous, satisfying adventure that any man could desire." He helped organize the United Press, edited the Philadelphia News-Post and proudly went to jail for criminal libel because of a political exposé. His last newspaper position was as general manager of Hearst's International News Service...
Under Publisher Brown and Editor Pew, Editor & Publisher has been a consistent moneymaker. Its most creditable features are thoroughness and speed. Thousands of words of copy, received by wire in Manhattan on Thursday, are read by subscribers on Friday afternoon. But rarely if ever does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers...
...Golden Jubilee Number produced last week by Editor Pew & staff will doubtless be made required reading in most schools of journalism. As a quick panorama of 50 years of U. S. journalism it is a prodigious work...
Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood...
...worshippers hoping to see the President again, but not until March a year later was their curiosity satisfied. His only other appearance in church in Washington was on Easter 1933, when he attended Washington Cathedral. Bishop Freeman and the Cathedral dean gave communion to the President in his pew while Mrs. Roosevelt partook kneeling at the altar rail. On Easter 1934, President Roosevelt held regulation naval services on the Nourmahal on which he was cruising with Vincent Astor...