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...liked what they saw-others sent letters of protest to the show's director, Lester D. Longman, who is trying to convince his fellow lowans that there is more to art than Grant Wood ever dreamed of. Wrote Editor Don Berry of the Indianola Record Herald and Tribune (circ. 3,693): Such paintings could only come from the mentally unbalanced. (The paintings come from such old hands at modernism as Stuart Davis, Fernand Leger, Karl Zerbe and Salvador Dali...
First to get Rose's offer was Editor Ralph Ingersoll of adless, reader-hungry PM (circ. 165,000). ("They say they're against people who push people around. Well, I'm people! My name is Norman Corwin, just like anybody else. In a tizzy I called Ralph Ingersoll. 'Hello! Ralph! Baby!' I said, very formally, 'Would you be interested in running my pipsqueak paragraphs for free? I promise not to mention my Technicolor trap [nor] the 50 girls with the 49 costumes.'-O.K., elephant boy,' said Ralph...
These three lines of Wordsworth, says 72-year-old Editor Arthur Aull, are the rules he runs his paper by. Editor Aull also calls by their plain name things that smell far less sweet. Result: his Lamar, Mo. Daily Democrat (circ. 1,609) is one of the most widely quoted bush leaguers in the country...
...which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...kinds: the political papers, belonging to the parties, and the journaux d'information, the moneymaking, straight-news sheets. Today, in a city only slightly larger than Chicago, 30 dailies decorate the gay kiosks of the Parisian boulevards. Outstanding among them are the Communist-tinted Ce Soir (circ. 536,000), which concentrates on a robust sports section; Combat (circ. 165,000), generally conceded to be the most stylishly written; the Communist L'Humanité, a pamphleteering paper with a circulation of 470,000; and France-Soir and Paris-Presse (527,000 apiece), which feature splash headlines and big frontpage...