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...carefully prepared statements, the New York Herald Tribune (circ. 347,490) last week announced a shift in editorial command. Out as executive editor and top-ranking man on the news side: George A. Cornish, 58, a Tribune veteran of 37 years, taking the title with him. In as the paper's new managing editor and vice president: Fendall Winston Yerxa, 46, the Trib's city editor for three years before he left the city room on 41st Street...
...balmy Los Angeles night into the offices of the Times (circ. 496,337) stepped a mysterious visitor. To the man behind the desk he exhibited the engraving of a full-page ad: Would the paper run it in its Christmas issue next day? The visitor produced $2,500 in cash, and the Times took the money and the ad. Soon the visitor's full-page message was rolling by the thousands off the Times's presses. In due course a composing-room hand, routinely checking all ads for typographical errors, came to this one. His eyes widened...
...competing Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 369,537) said somewhat smugly that the same ad had been brought to its office at about the same time, but some one read it and turned it down...
...honorable judges of the Federal District Court for eastern Michigan are hereby given notice," thundered Detroit's evening News (circ. 468,540). "They will shortly have to bring contempt proceedings against the editor of the Detroit News." Whereupon it tried to give the court a chance to do so by running an account of a civil-damage suit in apparent defiance of a court order suppressing the record of the case...
Since Detroit's two other papers ran similar stories, their concerted defiance promptly blew up into a national journalistic cause célèbre. Never before had the loftily independent News, John S. Knight's crusading Free Press (circ. 498,912), and Hearst's scrappy but third-ranking Times (circ. 385,908) shown such editorial solidarity. Encouragement flowed in from all over, even from the bench: "The court's business is the public business," said Federal District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, who, convalescing in a Detroit hospital, had taken no part in the suppression order...