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...Postman Snow was burned up to be excluded "on the laconic grounds that I am unacceptable. ... It is a vicious violation of ... freedom of the press." Edgar Snow had visited Mao Tse-tung and his Yenan Communists in 1936, had perhaps done more than any other man to sell their case to the U.S. His Red Star Over China has sold 52,000 copies. In The Pattern of Soviet Power, published in July, he argued for Big Three pressure to squeeze China's two factions into one, mostly by putting the squeeze on Chiang...
James M. Cain, concocter of literary 20-minute eggs (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce), settled down in New Orleans to write another novel, described book critics as "ex-police reporters gone highbrow ... simply weird in their ignorance." He complained that "all critics confuse themselves with God," and concluded that "the confusion is unjustified...
...left the News when Publisher Frank Knox died. Now back in the Mowrer apartment in Paris' genteelly shoddy Invalides district, Paul Scott Mowrer is eating poorly, like the French, but happy to be back. Son Richard, also a Postman,* sometimes sends coffee and canned groceries from the States. Then Paul and his wife Hadley (once the first wife of Ernest Hemingway) entertain the opposition: Paris Herald Editor Geoffrey Parsons Jr., who argues with Zenobie, the cook, about De Gaulle, but never about cooking...
Wallace looked like he might be going to beats mighty Holy Cross as he moved into the fifth inning with a one run lead, but in that frame things blew apart. Bob Batten started things off with a long single to right field, moving to third on Bill Postman's best to left. Then came the big blow. With Don Swegan pulled out of position at short to cover second, Charlie Stephenson pushed a neat hit through the place vacated by the shortstop; Batten and Pohlman raced around to score before left fielder Allen could come up with the ball...
...bought into the Post in 1939, took over as publisher in 1942. Circulationwise it has remained a weak sister in her hands, trailed among Manhattan's afternoon dailies only by Field's P.M. But guided by her shrewd husband, Editor Theodore Olin Thackrey, a Postman for eight years before he married his boss, she turned the paper into a tabloid, upped the price from 3? to 5?, and (though she campaigned for the New Deal) made money...