Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's Town Meeting (Mon. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The 500th get-together, with a repeat discussion of the program's first topic (Which Way, America: Fascism, Communism, Socialism or Democracy...
...Americans like comic strips, but some hate them. One who hates them belligerently is Author-Critic John Mason Brown. Last week during a radio debate in Manhattan's Town Hall on what's wrong with the funnies, he collided with boisterous Cartoonist Al Capp (real name: Alfred Gerald Caplin...
Novelist (Message from a Stranger) Marya Mannes, another Town Hall debater, was shocked. "Dickens is a creative artist," she snapped, "and Mr. Capp is a conveyor belt." The only good thing about the comics, said Mrs. Mannes, is that the most popular strips are in the most irresponsible papers, and serve to keep people from reading their editorials...
...many a Hearst town, legmen sought out and gave reams of space to obscure insurance men and lawyers who had founded unobtrusive "Mac-for-President" clubs months ago. Boston's Mayor Curley, glad to do a favor for the Record and the American, endorsed MacArthur - as a Democratic candidate. When opposition newsmen called him to check it, Curley laughed that he'd been "just kidding with the reporters." On second thought he said, "No, let the statement stand...
...Editor Townes was asking his bosses as well as his readers. When he took over six months ago, Owners Ed and Jim Scripps had promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...