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...legal brief, due for debate in the 60-nation General Assembly, was enhanced by the international make-up of its composers. The three: William DeWitt Mitchell of the U.S., attorney general under President Hoover; Sir Edwin Herbert of Great Britain, prominent London lawyer and wartime director of telegraph and postal censorship; Paul Veldekens of Belgium, law professor and president of the Belgian Supreme Court Defense Lawyers...
...pointed that the Germans put a price on the editor's head. Last week Punch took a long step toward bringing its writing up to par with its cartoons. For the first time in in years, the board named a newsman as its editor: the London Daily Telegraph's Deputy Editor Macolm Muggeridge, 49, to replace Kenneth Bird, 64, retiring to cartoon under his famous signature "Fougasse...
Muggeridge has worked for the Manchester Guardian, Evening Standard and Telegraph. He was an editor in India, a correspondent in Moscow and Washington, and his articles on the 1952 presidential campaign were just about the best in the British press. Newsman Muggeridge has always been as close a reader of The New Yorker and TIME and LIFE as of Punch. In Punch's own way, Muggeridge may bring to the magazine timeliness together with the suavity of The New Yorker's notes and comment. Says Muggeridge: "Punch must comment on the world today . . . I'm as pleased...
...Walter M. Jeffords' One Count, winner of the Belmont Stakes, "Horse of the Year" honors in the annual Morning Telegraph poll. Runner-up: Alfred Vanderbilt's unbeaten two-year-old, Native Dancer...
Eleventh Hour. Even though European papers gave the campaign more space than ever, much of the reporting, with the notable exception of the London Telegraph, was slanted by newsmen blinded by their affection for Stevenson and their misunderstanding of America. One of the first to go overboard was Manchester Guardian Correspondent Alistair Cooke, who two months ago predicted a Stevenson victory. But in an eleventh-hour conversion, Cooke took another look at Stevenson's "reach for greatness," as compared to Ike's "much more 'normal' campaign," and wrote: "It now appears most likely that the people...