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...surefire way of getting publicity is to present some sort of award to an authentic celebrity. This tried & true device has been put to good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with...
...Steel Corp. and Board Chairman Cass Canfield of Harper & Bros, withdrew as vice chairmen of the dinner committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...
...Selected List." The thin, slick-paper Churchman is the "oldest [145 years] existing religious journal in English." Long-jawed, fiery Editor Shipler, 67, has been guiding its destinies for the last 26 years. He had always wanted to be a journalist. After high school in Clyde, N.Y., he spent a year reporting for a Rochester paper, later worked for two years on the Boston Traveler before he went to Manhattan's conservative General Theological Seminary. "For three years," he says, "I suffered there, cut off from the world's affairs." After his ordination, Dr. Shipler spent a year...
...York local of the American Newspaper Guild. He was mum on who supplied the shoestring. Top editors will be British-born Cedric Belfrage, onetime cinema critic for the London Daily Express, and James Aronson, New York newsman. Among the contributors: Author Louis Adamic, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the Churchman; Roger (American Past) Butterfield, Sportwriter John Lardner and his screenwriter brother Ring Jr. (one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"); Max Werner, Anna Louise Strong, untiring apologist for Russia, and ex-New Masses Cartoonist William Gropper...
Ruefully, Editor Shipler announced that he would settle for a special citation to the new State of Israel-whose U.N. delegate warily declined. Cracked Manhattan's Daily News: "Better late than never, of course. But we can't help wondering . . . Don't any of Mr. Marshall's advisers read the papers...