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...great 1919 steel strike, the U.S. press carried so little news of the dispute that 32 labor editors decided to start a cooperative, nonprofit news service solely to cover union activities. The agency: Federated Press. Since 1922 the F.P. has been run by Carl Haessler, a Detroit newsman, publicist, e.g., with the Institute for Mortuary Research, and a self-styled "anticapitalist" who was court-martialed for refusing to put on an Army uniform in World War I, later went to Alcatraz for leading a prison strike. Not long after its founding, F.P. began to toe the Socialist and later...
...Jews traditionally have taken care of their own," says U.J.A. Publicist Rayfield Levy. In 1953, for example, the American Red Cross raised about $42 million from some 41 million members while U.J.A. raised more than $65 million from 2,000,000 Jews and some 500,000 non-Jews. When a Catholic dignitary asked U.J.A. President Edward Warburg one day how the Jews were able to raise so much, Warburg replied: "First you start with 2,000 years of persecution...
...situations as we saw them and to turn our editorial guns even on Catholic targets [e.g., Commonweal is strongly anti-McCarthy] when, wrongly or rightly, we felt it was the thing to do...The area of proper disagreement between Catholics is wide indeed, but we feel that the Catholic publicist simply cannot leave the papal peace program in a pious rhetorical vacuum...
...this time the moviegoer is about to drop his eyeballs out the window, and Hitchcock starts to tease. The photographer's girl friend (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion publicist, runs a pretty French seam of kisses down the Stewart profile; the ballerina in the lower-left corner of the camera's eye further cuts the sleuthing down to thighs; and the newlyweds in the third floor across the way keep threatening to dramatize every old joke about newlyweds. The beauty of it is that all Hitchcock's pandering is done with such wit and grace that...
...20th Century-Fox studio one day last week, Publicist Boss Harry Brand answered his telephone. Marilyn Monroe, the studio's No. 1 star, was calling from San Francisco. "I promised to tell you," said Marilyn, "when I was going to get married, so you can tell all my friends...