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Last week Mrs. Clews, now living in La Napoule, where she is writing her late husband's life, announced that her sculpture-encrusted Chateau de la Napoule will be permanently thrown open to the public some time this year, expose to the tourist gaze the medieval riches, actual and Clewsian, of the archwayed, sarcophagied, fountained interior...
Charles Wheeler Ervin, 73-year-old public relations adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, looks back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs's daily letters from prison, smile at advertisements announcing John and Lionel Barrymore in The Jest, cluck his tongue appreciatively at some of the best news reporting of another troubled...
Because the freedom, responsibilities and mores of the U. S. Press are today a public issue, TIME Inc. last year undertook a nationwide survey of the Press, using its own reporters and the machinery of the FORTUNE polls. In its August issue, out this week, FORTUNE prints the results of that survey. They constitute, for the first time in the long history of the free-press debate, a comprehensive body of fact, showing what the people think of the Press. Notable findings...
...demand for them clearly suggests that the public are not satisfied with the news service of the regular press...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want...