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...left are Mr. & Mrs. Ellsworth Wisecarver. Elaine Monfredi, unmarried 21-year-old mother of two, eloped last week from Los Angeles with "Sonny" Wisecarver, 14. To some, theirs was a tawdry tabloid tale, distasteful and easily dismissed. But others could not keep from wondering about the kind of American life which had produced the ideals of marital felicity they voiced. Said she: "Sonny is an ideal husband, the kind every girl wants to have. He is kind and considerate and doesn't believe in hitting women." Said he: "I think Elaine's the kind of wife I want...
...Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...
...week the tall, testy, taciturn publisher of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 925,000) consented to receive one. The lucky fellow was suave Columnist Marquis W. Childs (circ. 7,500,000), who has succeeded the late Raymond Clapper in 108 newspapers (187 took Clapper). Next day in Chicago's tabloid Daily Times Colonel McCormick could read Childs's bread-&-butter letter. It was a Childs-like appraisal of "one of the major myths of our times...
Died. Samuel Emory Thomason, 61, publisher of Chicago's lusty New Dealish tabloid Daily Times and the Tampa Tribune; of a heart attack; in Tampa, Fla. An old college friend of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could...
...week special delight is the exposure of Communists and Communist policy in liberal organizations, unions and government agencies. In the anniversary edition a list by Max Eastman of liberals who have sacrificed ''moral character" by kowtowing to Russian totalitarianism includes Max Lerner of Manhattan's tabloid PM, Paul Robeson, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker and Editor Freda Kirchwey of the liberal weekly Nation...