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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...story by Columnist Hugh Johnson calling for No More Aid to Britain. A cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt as a hockey goalie leaving his goal undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...redhaired, Maine-born Manhattan lawyer, Charles Shipman Payson (whose wife is Jock Whitney's sister Joan) started it all when he started Commentator four years ago. In November 1939, he absorbed defunct Scribner's, and about that time he hired as an assistant editor a modest, handsome young Westerner, George Eggleston, who had worked on the late College Humor, the old Life and the late Listener's Digest...
...Editor Eggleston got his friend Douglas Stewart, a New Deal-hating, Wall Street economist, to put some money into Scribner's Commentator. Last March they began reorganizing it. Out went Editor Francis Rufus Bellamy, Managing Editor Fred Hamlin, other editorial associates who were unsympathetic to their new policies. So far they have not only the satisfaction of promoting isolationism, but they claim it pays-that it has doubled Commentator's circulation, reduced operating losses very comfortably...
When he went back to Melbourne after the war, Murdoch sailed with the Prince of Wales on His Majesty's battle cruiser Renown. In 1920 he became editor of the Melbourne Herald, from then on loomed bigger and bigger in Australia's press...
...Many Me? is a little bundle of letters of proposal rifled from the dim attic of the past. It makes a sentimental hour's reading less jumbled and so more satisfying than M. Lincoln Schuster's recent 563-page Treasury of the World's Great Letters. Editor Frau Scheu-Riesz groups her letters according to the architectural styles of their periods (Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, etc.) which she thinks they mirror. Scraps from the bundle...