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...found McCarthy "three-fifths" innocent (since it recommended censure on only two of its five categories of charges), Hearst newspapers headlined their editorial: JOE WINS. But the reaction on the great majority of the nation's editorial pages was quite the opposite. In one sentence, the Los Angeles Mirror succinctly expressed what editors all over the U.S. were saying: "Public opinion has caught up with another demagogue...
...Cassandra" of the London Daily Mirror, biggest daily (circ. 4,535,687) in the world, owl-shaped, sharp-tongued William Neil Connor, 45, is the hardest-hitting and most-quoted columnist in Britain. Cassandra combines the terrible temper of a Westbrook Pegler with the calculated irreverence of an H. L. Mencken. "It is a pity," Sir Winston Churchill once said, "that so able a writer should show himself so dominated by malevolence." Even his own paper often finds his comments hard to take, but suffers them because of his circulation-building appeal. Says Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp: "Cassandra disagrees...
London dailies, the biggest in the world, are trying a new way to grow bigger. They are publishing children's weeklies. The breezy Laborite tabloid Minor (circ. 4,535,687) started it with Junior Mirror, filled with puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions...
...Mirror, Mirror . . ." Many middle-class parents, aware that they can show a child neither a clear tradition-worn path nor a clear work-shaped goal, ask him merely to "do his best" in any of the unpredictable situations that will face him. What is his best? That which wins the approval of his contemporaries...
...look down on them from walls that, like the teacher herself, are no longer impersonal. This looks progressive, looks like a salute to creativeness and individuality; but again we meet paradox. While the school de-emphasizes grades and report cards, the displays seem almost to ask the children: 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest...