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Into the Manhattan offices of Review of Reviews last month stepped a short, dark-haired youngish man who introduced himself to Associate Editor David Page as Pledge Brown, a onetime newshawk on the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle. Producing a letter from Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum thanking him for an article on the New Deal's Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that...
Next morning, on rereading Brown's article, Editor Page decided "it was too good to be true." He telephoned the Forum, which reported that both The Literary Digest and the Philadelphia Public Ledger had recommended Brown's work. As a final check Editor Page insisted on comparing his article with the Forum's. They were almost identical...
...likely to get an honorary degree? To cast some light on this vexing academic question Datus C. Smith Jr., able young editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle...
...Editor & Publisher, which he joined in 1924 after resigning from the Hearstian International News Service "on principle," Editor Pew found a resounding forum for his views. Among his antipathies is Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell, who tried to make capital of the Philadelphia jailing and was ringingly denounced by Editor Pew as: "A Broadway scavenger ... a physical coward ... a journalistic gangster...
...period during the year when prominent U. S. newspapermen express themselves from the forum instead of the type font is the University of Missouri's Journalism Week. To Columbia, Mo. last week went 350 guests of the University's School of Journalism to take part in the 27th Journalism Week, the first without the presence of Dr. Walter Williams, founder of the school and president of the University from 1931 until his death last July...