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...Pulitzer-prize expose of the Texas land scandal (TIME, March 7, 1955), the tiny (circ. 3,016) Cuero Record last year pointed up the sloth of the state's big-city dailies. Last week readers lamented the Record's display of its own seamy side: a front-page editorial urging reelection of one of the scandal's chief figures, U.S. Congressman John J. Bell...
...circulation affected: 165,000. The reason was given as the "crushing charges that have been levied against the democratic press." Translation: rising expenses have put the Communist papers into an old-fashioned capitalist cost squeeze, aggravated by reader disillusionment over destalinization. Since 1950, France's 15 Communist dailies (circ. 1,250,000) have shrunk to nine (circ...
...from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel and Hemingway's Word," hit Page One of Havana's big (circ. 52,000) morning daily, Excelsior, it bloomed too close to home. Thoroughly enraged, Hemingway went to the Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro, La Terraza...
Died. Jesse Holman Jones, 82, Texas tycoon, big builder (of Houston skyscrapers), publisher (Houston Chronicle; circ. 596,000), longtime (1932-45) head of Reconstruction Finance Corp., wartime (1940-45) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; in Houston. As overlord of RFC and a dozen other New Deal agencies in the Depression '30s, massive (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), granite-faced Jesse Jones saved many a bank, railroad and factory from disaster, made money for the Government by insisting, with a small-town banker's care, on rock-sound collateral before certifying a federal loan. Jones was dropped by Franklin...
...Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth of the Des Moines Register was taken aback by a colleague's question: Why doesn't the Register run anything about anti-Negro discrimination in Iowa? The questioner: Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. of Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 60,144), who has been campaigning editorially for Northern papers to cover the racial, problem in their areas (TIME, April 23). Des Moines's Soth* replied that the problem simply does not exist. But after he got home, Editor Soth did some digging into the subject, found that there...