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Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...
...first eyewitness book published in the. U. S. about Britain in its recent months of trial by bomb last week appeared. It was Report on England: November, 1940 (Simon & Schuster; $1.50), expanded from a series of newspaper stories written by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's afternoon tabloid, PM. He flew to Britain last fall, spent two weeks listening to air-raid alarms, looking at shelters, talking with newsmen, firemen, doctors, pilots, officials -including Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin. Then he flew home...
...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Daily News, got interested in sex determination. He hired a couple of scientists, set them to work in an old laboratory douching rats and rabbits. For two years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits...
Last week the stockholders of the afternoon tabloid PM, which last June set out to crash New York City's big-time circle of newspapers, received copies of a letter. It began "Dear Sirs: I intend to form a corporation under the laws of the State of New York . . ." and it concluded "Very truly yours, Marshall Field." The letter punctuated a fact which PM's directors had already faced: that after about three months of publication PM had run completely through-and come out the other side of-the $1,500,000 cash which 18 stockholders...
Bellevue is not only one of the biggest but probably the most notorious municipal hospital in the U. S. It is best known to tabloid readers as the place where many sordid metropolitan melodramas reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting...