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...Called Subversive," the magazine was pelted with complaints. They leveled charges of "pro-Communism" at Collier's and at the author, Mrs. Dorothy Frank, a California housewife, who had defended UNESCO courses in Los Angeles public schools. Some at the same time demanded that Collier's (circ. 3,100,000) fire Associate Fiction Editor Bucklin Moon, who was charged with "a long record of Red-front affiliations." The two complaints had no direct connection, since Moon had nothing to do with Collier's buying or running the article. Nevertheless, last week Collier's summarily fired Moon...
...Toast to Ike. Moscow was their last stop on an eleven-country flying tour of Europe run by James L. Wick, board chairman of the Niles (Ohio) Daily Times (est. circ. 3,634), with interests in seven other small papers, and part owner of the travel bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly...
...York Daily News Gossip Columnist Ed Sullivan discovered that a pro-Communist weekly, National Guardian (circ. 47,000), had bought a block of 300 seats for the April 8 performance of Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell. The magazine planned to resell the tickets in a fund-raising campaign. Wrote Sullivan: "I'm quite sure, Rosalind, that you'll step out of this . . . job for the Kremlin." Producer Robert Fryer canceled the April 8 performance, told ticket holders they would get their money back...
...daily Staats-Zeitung, just as the late Joseph Pulitzer started out on St. Louis' German-language Westliche Post. Last week, with the number of German readers still dwindling, Victor F. Ridder, 67, son of Herman Ridder, announced that he was selling the Staats-Zeitung und Herald (circ. 22,462), now the largest German-language daily in the U.S., for an undisclosed sum. The new owners: August Steuer, a retired New York restaurateur, and Erwin Single, business manager of the Ridder Journal of Commerce...
Throughout San Francisco last week. Hearst's Call-Bulletin (circ. 148,079) splashed posters trumpeting "Your NEW Call-Bulletin" ran full-page announcements that the paper had been redesigned by the "world's foremost designer of modern newspapers." Across the continent in Manhattan, the Herald-Tribune (331,853), which has won more major typographical awards than any other paper in the U.S., made no announcement as it transformed its sports pages to test a front-to-back typographical overhauling. But both jobs were the handiwork of the same man-beefy, jovial Gilbert Farrar. 66. who has redesigned...