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That gave Sonderegger an idea: Why not set up a newspaper syndicate and clearing house to report crime on a national scale? In Chicago last month, at the Journal-Bulletin's invitation, staffers from the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago Daily News, the Denver Post and other major newspapers met in secret to set up the syndicate...
Harvard was big news last weekend in Washington and Baltimore newspapers. They carried copy to the effect that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the nation's oldest university had seen fit to dispatch a note to the Navy objecting to the "informer clause" of the NROTC loyalty certificate...
Last week, newspaper "advertising acceptability" departments had more than their quota of headaches. One was Paul Blanshard's bestseller, American Freedom and Catholic Power, which attacks Roman Catholic doctrines and practices. The Chicago Daily News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Minneapolis Star & Tribune advertising departments had printed ads for the Blanshard book. But the New York Times, which reviewed American Freedom as "news," refused to carry ads for the "controversial" book...
...Actress Bergman was in a chintz-decorated three-room clinic suite, the U.S. public learned from its front pages.* "She is so taken with the tot," glowed one dispatch. Said Dr. Guidotti: "Miss Bergman is one of the happiest mothers I have ever known . . . The baby is one of the healthiest and prettiest I ever delivered." Flowers soon filled one room of the suite, and congratulatory messages flooded in, many from the U.S. (among the notable well-wishers: Marion, Davies and Ernest Hemingway...
...Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play down the strategic importance of Formosa and anticipate its fall...