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...brand-new editorial management marched in this week to take charge of the Saturday Evening Post. Only a fortnight after the Post uncorked its unprecedented price boost from 5? to 10? (TIME, March 9), Editor Wesley Winans Stout abruptly quit his job, after a "disagreement on policy." With him went...
...editor is mild Ben Hibbs, 40, editor of Country Gentleman, and, like Editor Stout, a onetime Kansas newspaperman. An equally significant newcomer is a smart, versatile young man (29), Robert Fuoss (pronounced Foos), who fills the newly created post of managing editor. Young Fuoss, a graduate of the University of Michigan, has for two years headed Post promotion and publicity. He is an advertising man, a protégé of Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway...
Editor Hibbs's Country Gentleman has been considerably more pro-Administration than the Post. But the disagreement which produced the shake-up doubtless concerned a great deal more than the editorial page, for fiction is still the main stay of the Post's editorial appeal. And Editor Stout, who got his training under the late, great editor, George Lorimer, was generally credited with doing a first-rate...
...Editor Stout, a man of determined convictions, refused to discuss whys & wherefores; but, said he: "There was not one point of disagreement but several. It was a very strong disagreement." He said he was going back to "the work I'm happiest in-a tramp newspaper man." With his wife he will head west by automobile, taking plenty of time to chin with plain folks along the way. For his first self-assignment he chose "the biggest story in America today, the story of the revolution that is taking place in American life...
...bitterness manfully. Dr. Chiang, closing the conference on Chungking hill, looked back on China's years of war: "Night fell early upon China's independence," he said. "But we held on, hoping against hope. Then at midnight, at the darkest hour, we suddenly found at our side stout and loyal companions in arms...