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Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
Last week Kent Cooper's wrath exploded in several directions...
...sent the sizzling text of a message he had sent to General Wilson himself. It reminded the General of his assurances (when he took over from General "Ike" Eisenhower) that there would be no political censorship, as there had been under his Middle East command. Cabled irate Kent Cooper...
Forbidden Land. Cagily, Kent Cooper sent A.P.'s story on the protest to U.S. editors on a hold-for-release basis, io that they would know the censorship score in case the War Department blocked his kick (which it did not). The A.P.'s story was the heaviest indictment yet of non-security censoring. Many papers gave it column-long play. Among the Cooper counts...
Soap and Shoes. Almost everyone is for the annual wage - in principle. But only a trifling number of U.S. companies have been brave enough to try it out in fact. One of the first was Procter & Gamble (Crisco, Ivory Soap), in 1923. Its socially conscious president, the late William Cooper Procter, felt that the "outstanding evil" of the U.S. economic system was its in ability to provide steady employment, decided to guarantee all P. & G. workers 48 weeks of work a year. Working out such a plan was not simple. Although the consumer demand for soap is year-around, wholesalers...