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...group of harassed neutrals formed the Paris Citizens' League and signed up 1,200 members determined to get to the root of the trouble. The League disavowed any intention of strikebreaking, but its sponsor, the Board of Trade, bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote before...
Late one night last week, four Chinese Nationalist cops strode into the shabby living room of Kung Teh-pai, editor of Nanking's National Salvation Daily (circ. 15,000). Without a word, stubby, rugged Editor Kung, who has well earned his reputation as China's most outspoken editor, reached for his hat. After 25 years of writing what he thought - and eight previous arrests - Kung knew what to expect. He told his wife: "You can reach me at the prison." The day before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating...
...nearly 40 years, the weekly Norfolk Journal and Guide has campaigned so skillfully for the Negro that it is the biggest Negro newspaper in the South (circ. 68,000). It is also about the most soundly edited paper in a segment of the U.S. press that is too often shrill, sensational and irresponsible. Last week the Guide won its third straight Wendell Willkie award-for public service in Negro journalism. Said Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships and chairman of the judges: "For the most part, the Negro press has a long...
Gideon's Knights. When P. (for Plummer) Bernard Young went to work for the Guide in 1907, it was the fraternal organ (circ. 500) of the Knights of Gideon. One day the editor failed to show up and Printing Foreman Young tried his hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...
Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...