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Biographer Sherwood clearly agrees with the Yank estimate of F.D.R.: "He was the Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...
...Princeton in the '90s and later founded Chicago's Journal of Commerce. While studying at Stanford, "Bud" Ames was struck by the fact that most small-towners, who have lots of time to read, get no magazine sections in their newspapers. Later, as a publications officer for Yank magazine, he spent his spare hours plotting and planning a new kind of supplement...
United Nations World, launched by former Yank Boss Egbert White with the aid of Michael (New Republic) Straight (who later dropped out), was spending some of its $400,000 in new capital on an expanded business section (up from three pages to 16). Under ex-WPB Adviser Herbert Harris, United Nations World (circ. 85,000) will run special stories on basic industries and commodities, and more pictures in a streamlined format...
There were other names which pop up regularly all along the U.S. Communist line: ex-Yank Correspondent Walter Bernstein, Movie Scripter Alvah Bessie (now awaiting trial for contempt of Congress), New Yorker Profiler Richard O. Boyer, ex-Howard University Professor Doxey Wilkerson...
Toothpaste & Politics. He began his first experiments in polling, tramping the streets of Iowa City with a briefcase full of newspapers. At that time, a common way of measuring reader interest was to yank out the crossword puzzle for a week and count the complaints. Gallup adopted the startling device of confronting a reader with the whole newspaper and asking him exactly what he liked and didn't like about...