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Miss Cassidy's light burned unwaveringly, though under the Journal of Commerce's bushel (circ. 21,000). Other newspapers repeatedly passed her by, hiring "long haired" esthetes to write dull but pompous-sounding critiques...
Last December Claudia got her break: Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun (present circ. 310,000) hired her as its music critic. Last week she got another: the Chicago Tribune snatched her away from the Sun, will now spread her opinions before 1,150,000 readers...
...from the knowing, energetic Detroit News, the city's largest newspaper (circ. 336,014), came a different reaction. Reprinting part of LIFE'S text, the News said: "It is a harsh indictment. To much of it Detroit must plead guilty." As to wildcat strikes and sitdowns, said the News, Franklin Roosevelt had asked for specific information. It urged all who knew about the unpublicized stoppages to write to the White House...
Nervous, nicotinous William Hard Jr., roving editor of rich (circ. 5,500,000) Reader's Digest, is glad to smoke any kind of a cigaret, likes them all. His likes gave him an idea and Reader's Digest a story. Last week the story backfired, leaving long-nosed Editor Hard wondering whether it had been worth while...
Pegler. The publishers were smoking mad at ''that archtraitor Westbrook Pegler." In his April 28 column Pegler had damned the two biggest Negro papers-the Pittsburgh Courier (circ. 130,000) and the Chicago Defender (circ. 83,000)-for exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous...