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Thirty-six hours after the announcement, the Draft Eisenhower League finally gave in. National Chairman Stuart Scheftel resigned and asked all state chapters to disband. Six other members of the league's national board swung their support to Harold Stassen. Around Feb. 15, Eisenhower was expected to leave the War Department, as planned, and move on to the presidency of Columbia University...
...they were listed in the 1946 edition. McNulty spent part of the year working on a book about a bar on Manhattan's Third Avenue, a street seldom mentioned in the Register. ¶ Mrs. Eleanor Labrot, who married Actor Brian Aherne last January. ¶Socialite publisher Stuart Scheftel who married Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald last September. Listed under "Dilatory Domiciles," the Register's never-never classification reserved for those who are not settled at a permanent address, were: ¶Socialite theatrical producer Horace Schmidlapp, who married lush Cinestar Carole Landis just after the Register's 1946 deadline...
Married. Geraldine Fitzgerald, 31, cinemactress; and Stuart Scheftel, 36, publisher of the prosperous juvenile journal Young America; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles...
Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25? for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts...
Young America, with 296,000 circulation, is the fourth biggest children's magazine in the U. S., behind American Boy-Youth's Companion (311,000), Boys' Life (302,000), Open Road for Boys (301,000. But last week Stuart Scheftel counted up the number of subscriptions his schoolteacher salesmen said they could deliver this fall, found the total 700,000. Generously discounting this figure, he still thought he had more than enough to put Young America first...