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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...story appeared on page one of the November 16 CRIMSON...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...
...hours later, guest of honor at a publisher's reception, he was on his way through an amazing series of adventures. Colin, who would have found it hard to get into the editor's office of Figaro on Monday, wrote Figaro's front-page literary essay on Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group...
...series on "The Country's Plight-What can be done about it?"-a scholarly, thoughtful and fair-minded examination of the Depression and the remedies the Hoover administration was applying. In 1934, Ross went back to St. Louis to boss the P-D's editorial page. But he was too good a reporter to be a brilliant editorial writer; his editorials were long on balance and facts, short on opinion. In 1939 he was back in Washington again as contributing editor of the PD, covering the political scene...
When the Washington Star juggled its comic strips recently to make room for a new one, the editors worried not a bit about dropping an odd little strip from the top of the page. Its name: Pogo. But the reaction was sharp & swift. In came a letter signed by 18 members of the "Pogo Protective League" demanding that the strip "be returned to its rightfully superior position" lest "indignant readers everywhere rise up in armed might to crush this infamy." Gravely the Star's editors bowed to the will of the readers, restored Pogo...