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...post-Hitler German youth, Jews are almost as exotic as Javanese. Karl Marx,* editor of the Jewish weekly Allgemeine Wochenzeitung (circ. 48,000), reports that students swarm to him on his lecture tours, tell him in awe: "You are the first Jewish person we have ever met." In sharing the Germany of this new generation, some of Germany's Jews regard themselves as a reminder to Christians of the sins of the past, and as a continuing litmus paper for testing the country's democratic intentions. "There has not yet been any test of Germany's democracy...
...Margaret's husband, is also the Earl of Snowdon and until his career ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...
...left exclusively to poets. Japanese of all backgrounds like to compose spare, highly stylized verses* whose aim is to evoke a moment or a mood, rather than convey a moral or tell a story, as in Western poetry. One of the top features of Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,568,000) is its Sunday selection of the ten best haiku and waka culled from some 500 it receives weekly. Last week an amateur poet named Akito Shima achieved the rare distinction of having had his work printed in the paper's poetry section for 17 successive weeks...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy lived up to the hopes of fellow Catholics during his first year as President? A heavily hedged yes is the answer of the weighty Jesuit magazine America (circ. 53,573). President Kennedy has conducted himself, wrote Father Thurston Davis, S.J., America's editor in chief, "more or less as almost any Catholic President might have been expected to conduct himself in a land largely dominated by a strong residual Protestant tradition...
...strength and numbers of the metropolitan press. The attrition is so great that newsrooms often buzz with rumors about what paper will be next to go. One such tale got out of hand last week in Detroit, where, ever since 1932, John S. Knight's morning Free Press (circ. 550,000) has had no rival at the city's breakfast tables. Detroit buzzed with so many stories about the Free Press being on the block that Publisher Knight finally felt obliged to publicly brand them as lies. He ran a full-page ad: THE DETROIT FREE PRESS...