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...lapse did not escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington...
Seldom in history had an invading force been better behaved or more peacefully inclined. The 10,000 U.S. Navymen who swarmed into London last week from the battleships Wisconsin and New Jersey, the carriers Kearsarge and Randolph, were in holiday mood. The 2,140 downy-cheeked midshipmen were agog with excitement over the sights they had seen on Uncle Sam's "Show the Flag" junket to northwestern Europe...
...William Randolph Hearst's personal shopping list was glommed some years ago by a literary visitor, and the gossip finally reached the Saturday Review of Literature. The list read: "1 pair shoelaces, 1 croup kettle, 2 hippopotami...
There are thousands of items as curious as these. Author Randolph says that although the old notions die hard, many of them are in fact dying: "Wherever railroads and highways penetrate, wherever newspapers and movies and radios are introduced, the people gradually lose their distinctive local traits and assume the drab color which characterizes conventional Americans elsewhere...
...Arkansas, whom Randolph asked about witchcraft, put it differently: "Them things are goin' on same as they always did, but it's all under cover nowadays. The young folks lives too fast an' heedless. More than half of 'em are bewitched anyhow, so they don't care what happens. It looks like the Devil's got the country by the tail, on a downhill pull...