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Editorial offices buzzed early this year when Charles Fulton Oursler, 44, well-paid editor-in-chief for Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having...
...Develop a permanent national organization to speak effectively for the voiceless stockholder with, perhaps, well-paid professional or public directors sitting at the corporate council table ("The investors . . . today are. by & large, orphans of our financial economy...
...David Newcome was a little, middle-aged doctor in an English cathedral town. He had a large but not very well-paid practice. People liked him, called him "the little doctor." Wherever he went, "people always began talking to him, telling him all their lives if there were time enough, because he had a way of listening gently." He even listened gently to his wife, the angular daughter of a rural dean, who loved to give the little doctor a piece of her mind. She, alas, did not appreciate his passive qualities, thought he ought to get out and hustle...
Albert Payson Terhune is a big, beefy man who cultivates untidy hair and a vast reputation for knowing and loving dogs. On the subject of Man's Best Friend, he has written millions of well-paid words. Last week small Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal editorially jumped roundly upon large Mr. Terhune for injudicious talk about rabies...
Similar was the case in 1934. when NRA sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...