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Lake Genevans knew them as promotion manager, editor and publisher respectively of a magazine and a weekly paper-Scribner's Commentator and The Herald-which six months ago moved into their town from far-off Manhattan (TIME, May 26). The two publications settled down in a remodeled two-story building that used to be the old Sawyer Blacksmith Shop, to spread isolationist propaganda, but the townsfolk grew more & more puzzled...
...names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list-many businesses have them for soliciting business-but the Government was presumably concerned about what purposes it was being used...
Died. Robert Bridges* 83, friend and Princeton classmate of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, famed editor (1914-30) of Scribner's Magazine; in Shippensburg...
Died. Samuel Alexander Scribner, 82, onetime "King of the Burlesque Wheel"; in Bronxville, N.Y. He ran away from home as a boy to join the circus, spent 20 years with tent shows. At the turn of the century he organized the Columbia Amusement Co. and gained control of all the burlesque theaters between Omaha and Boston. He retired in 1916, but seven years ago he came out of retirement briefly to help glorify Gypsy Rose...
Official reason for the move was reported to Lake Genevans by Scribner's Commentator Editor George Teeple Egleston, sleek ex-editor of the old Life. Manhattan, said he, produced editorial frustration largely because of "Mayor LaGuardia's yells that the German bombers are coming...