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...This week the Satevepost begins a four-part autobiographical series entitled "Confessions of an S.O.B." Author: Drew Pearson, who wrote hopefuly: "While I may be an s.o.b., I hope I am not a heel...
Died. Wythe Williams, 74, puckish, pipe-smoking magazine editor and newspaperman, sometime foreign correspondent for the New York World, New York Times. Satevepost (1925-26), chief correspondent (1931-36) for Hearst papers in London, founding president (1939) of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club of America; of cancer; in Jersey City...
...Mark Tobay, 65, began his painting career by copying Satevepost covers, tried painting lamps, then moved to the Northwest and took up art teaching. A trip to China in 1934 turned Tobey from a follower into a force. Learning that Oriental art started with calligraphy, he has ever since been making determined stabs in the direction of ending Occidental art the same way. Tobey is today revered and reviled as the inventor of something called "white writing." Tobey's writing is, of course, quite illegible. Cast in loose, delicate swirls, it can soothe the restless eye as much...
Item: Ridgway. As the President expected, a reporter brought up another troublesome issue: General Matthew B. Ridgway's attack in the Satevepost upon the Eisenhower Administration's defense policies. The President dismissed, abruptly, General Ridgway's contention that domestic politics influenced the reduction of the U.S. Army: "Well, first, if ever I have made a military decision out of deference to internal politics then I have been guilty of violating my own best determinations. I am determined never in that field to be influenced by such a thing." The President advised his questioners to check with Defense...
Reason for the change, said Editor Ben Hibbs, was to give subscribers "an easier to read, more beautiful magazine." But the change was also prompted by something else: tougher competition. Though the Satevepost's circulation is edging up, and total advertising revenue increased $1,072,635 in the first half of 1955, advertising pages through September, 1955 slipped 4.7% below last year...