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...commanded the grandiloquently named, puppy-sized U.S. Asiatic Fleet (two cruisers, 13 destroyers, 27 submarines, some auxiliaries). Later he took over what there was of a Pacific Allied Fleet until he was relieved last February in favor of the late Dutch Admiral K. W. F. M. Doorman. In two Satevepost articles innocently entitled What Our Navy Learned in the Pacific and Amphibious War Against Japan, Admiral Hart loosed his pent-up feelings about the Army in terms so thinly veiled that no soldier or sailor could miss his point...
...practically nothing at all, he picked up a tottering, 24-page fashion and socialite magazine. That was Vogue, which "had no friends outside the lonesome office of its advertising manager"-then. A decade later it had plenty of friends of just the right kind. It ranked second to Satevepost in ads, had sister editions in Paris, London and Buenos Aires. It also had a sophisticated brother, Vanity Fair, the editing of which Condé Nast turned over to Frank Crowninshield, the town's wittiest connoisseur of art and letters. They were a team. Nast built a 30-acre printing...
Snow on India. Digging deep into India's troubled politics, Correspondent Edgar Snow of Satevepost wrote that long-sought agreement between the Hindu-dominated Congress and the Moslem League of shrewd-bargaining Ali Mohamed Jinnah would lead to almost immediate independence.* He said that war-plant production and expansion would be greatly accelerated by the motive of patriotism; that military training and conscription might be introduced; men of ability brought to defense service; villagers trained, as in China, to make war goods. "India," said Snow, "would lift up her head, shake off her inferiority complex, and get in tune...
...second in the weekly field. It now claims only 1,400,000 -down over half a million from last year and its guarantee has been reduced all the way to 1,100,000. Ever since it upped its price from a nickel to a dime in April, following the Satevepost's lead, Liberty's sales have been sharply off-its subscriptions have not had time to be affected materially, but newsstand sales have dropped almost one-third and boy sales over 60%. Advertising revenue, always slim, dropped 50% in a year to a piddling $155,000 (in July...
...Told that one plant was so secret they could not even say they had seen it, let alone its product, correspondents a few days later beheld the selfsame product, in color, peering out of a full-page ad in the Satevepost...