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...Stimson's telegram and statement gave Army officers public notice of what some of them had already been told: that they were not to discuss Army-Navy relations in any way, anywhere, with anybody. That Army-Navy relations had reached a stage of noncooperation requiring such orders was an unhappy fact which Mr. Stimson had now officially written into the record...
Jack Foster, 36, ex-assistant executive editor of the New York World-Telegram, went to Denver two years ago to pump some life blood into Scripps-Howard's doddering Rocky Mountain News. With the help of Business Manager Bill Hailey, he brightened up the stodgy, old (83 years) sheet, raised its sluggish circulation to a new high (about...
...Manpower Commission office in one day last week came a frantic telegram from Washington's big Yakima Valley applegrowers (they needed 35,000 more pickers right away or they would lose their crop), came the problem of a shipment of planes all ready to go to General MacArthur except for a single part (to come from a plant whose workers have been stolen by another factory), came an ugly message from one of McNutt's regional aides (a group of West Coast farmers, unable to get labor, threatened to plant no crops for next year...
...press. No papers anywhere gather and print more straight news than the morning New York Times and Herald Tribune. The tabloid, comics-choked morning News has the largest daily circulation (2,007,797) of any newspaper. The conservative Sun and its afternoon feature-story rival, the World-Telegram, are commuters' specials. And there are half a dozen other papers not counting The Bronx News...
Some readers may wonder whether Abner's conduct can properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...