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...never been an editor. Last week he got his chance. Hungarian-born Alexander Ince, onetime publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...
...capture the veterans' trade in March 1946. Its staff, like its flavor, came from Yank and Stars and Stripes. But its G.I. appeal wore thin: it seemed that the most appealing thing to veterans was being a civilian again. This week in its February issue, Salute (circ. around 230,000) took off its uniform. With a new staff and a new idea, it had changed into a "picture magazine...
...still play the news in the way that (they were taught) will sell papers. They still give a quarter of their space to sports. If it means throwing U.N. into the hellbox, they find room for the day's crimes, knowing that the Sunday News of the World (circ. 7,500,000) was built on news of the half-world...
...modest office off Zion Square in Jerusalem. Editor Gershon Agronsky, 54, just home from covering the fateful U.N. debates at Lake Success, gathered his Palestine Post staffers around him. While they sang Happy Birthday, he gravely cut a cake and the staff sipped wine. Thus the doughty little (circ. 23,000) daily that is the London Times of the Middle East-and the authoritative voice of the Zionist moderates-passed its 15th birthday...
...Chicago Journal of Commerce (circ. 35,000) had never been healthier. Its staff had never been jumpier. For weeks, in its grubby home on the near North Side, washroom rumors had bubbled up about the paper's impending sale or suspension. Finally Colonel John D. Ames, editor and publisher, called his 200 employees together and told them what was up. Not death but a marriage was in the offing. Last week, the Ridder Bros.' New York Journal of Commerce, oldest (120 years) business paper...