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Like its competitors, the News Chronicle of 1946 is still on a four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ...
Austere Rev. Dr. Alexander James Wilson, editor of the United Church Observer (circ: 38,000) in Toronto, heard about it, did some commendable leg work, found that Moo Cow was indeed listed (No. 15) in the young people's song sheet. Then he unleashed his righteous editorial wrath...
...little-known Canadian magazine, the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver (circ. 15,000), went far afield last week for a scoop: the first Eskimo fashion show...
...exclude Marshall Field's Chicago Sun, the high-&-mighty Associated Press took some stern lecturing at the hands of prosecutors and the courts. Last week it got a dressing-down from one of its own members. To Editor James Kerney Jr. of Trenton's little Evening Times (circ. 54,381), it seemed that A.P. had acted with poor grace when the Supreme Court told it to mend its ways (TIME...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...