Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editorialists Max Lerner and I. F. Stone (now in Palestine) will become thrice-a-week columnists, and have been told to keep it brief. As cartoonists, the Star has hitched a talented team: young Bill Mauldin and, for the editorial page, Veteran Edmund Duffy, three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, who recently left the Baltimore...
Publisher Crum was still coy about his backers. Marshall Field, he explained, will keep only a 25% interest in the Star. Together, Crum & Barnes will hold 33 ⅓%. In the next fortnight they will select, from offers of $3,000,000 in working capital, the $1,500,000 they want...
...Wallace left), but one of its ideals is to make money. Already, says Bart Crum, the staggering $15,000 weekly loss has been nearly halved; he hopes to be in the black by Labor Day. Good management will help, and so will such sidelines as syndicating the Star's stable of talent. But the main chance is to steal readers from two tabloids that are past masters of rough-&-tumble newsstand methods. If the Star ever seriously threatens either the Daily News or the Mirror, New York is in for a rousing street brawl...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...being so honest with each other McKelway and Buchanan raised a clear-cut issue that had the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild in a dither of soul-searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...