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Rowse also availed himself of Edward L. Bernays' 1952 survey of all daily publishers to pick the "ten best papers" in the country. The ten, listed in order, were New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Star, New York Herald-Tribune, Chicago Daily News, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Milwaukee Journal. Rowse omitted only two of these, the Washington and Louisville papers, on the grounds that they were not in key electoral areas...
Very fair: Baltimore Sun; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
...Among his clients: Underworld Overlord Frank Costello, Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the late Senator Joe McCarthy. Among his triumphs: arguing the first libel suit ever won against Columnist Drew Pearson, beating a Post Office ban on Confidential...
Dulles asked the news representatives to join him in selecting the organizations to be allowed correspondents in China, but the Washington Post and Times Herald's J. Russell Wiggins, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, objected that U.S. policy of no contact with Red China is a Dulles-Eisenhower policy, and therefore the President and Secretary of State must take full responsibility for the nature and scope of any exceptions to it. The newsmen objected to Dulles' proposed limitation on the size of the group because it ignored "technological" changes since the war, i.e., the growth...
Died. Kenneth Roberts, 71, bestselling historical novelist (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage); of a coronary thrombosis; in Kennebunkport, Me. Born in Maine, where his ancestors (arriving in 1639) worked and warred for several generations, Roberts had already gained international repute as a good reporter (on the Boston Post, 1909-17, the Saturday Evening Post, 1919-37) when he switched to full-time writing of historical fiction, ingeniously and accurately ("I think that most historians . . . should have stuck to farming") tracked down his background for realistic, robust tales of the French and Indian wars (1754-60) and the Revolutionary...