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Among all the U.S. newsmen who were put on the pan in Britain last week (see INTERNATIONAL), the hottest fire was reserved for E. T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press (circ. 277,347), most prosperous of the Scripps-Howard chain of 19 papers. After a month's stay in Britain exploring the economic crisis, Leech had turned out a series of articles which started running in 30 U.S. papers last week. Despite the newsprint shortage, most London dailies also devoted precious space to Leech's report, while the pro-Labor press rapped him as a "poison...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
This week LIFE (circ. 5,380,629) got a new managing editor, Edward K. (for Kramer) Thompson, 41. Thompson, who has been assistant managing editor since 1945, succeeded Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., 36, who resigned after 15 years at TIME Inc. and three as LIFE...
...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
...Villager, a prosperous (circ. 26,000), country-style weekly published in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, appeared a sentimental eulogy last week of its star columnist. "I shall always think of him," wrote Reader Katherine Caldwell, "as one of the great ... He had the lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made...