The Roaring Presses

Fit to Print. The New York Times dutifully reported: Henry Wallace, in California . . . "commented on the failure of newspapers generally to print his 'open letter' to Premier Stalin. Mr. Wallace said: 'Almost painfully, I must give credit to the New York Times as the only newspaper that printed my letter in full. You can find almost anything in the New York Times if you look between pages ten and 17.' " Added the Times: the story "started, on Page i and was continued, with the text of the letter, on Page 14."

No Sale. The Cincinnati Enquirer, which was recently put on the block (TIME, May 3), was hauled off again. Washington's American Security & Trust Co., which holds the paper in trust, announced that it "has received no bid ... which was considered adequate." The trustees' definition of adequacy: around $10,000,000.

Ain't Nature Grand. The New York Herald Tribune printed a folksy bit of home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace."

The Chase Continues. Tough Woodruff Randolph, president of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union, got a thumping vote of confidence in his strike-ridden battle with publishers (TIME, Sept. 1). In the heaviest vote (about 70,000) ever cast in an I.T.U. election, Randolph's "progressive" ticket won a 3-to-2 victory over the "independent" party headed by John R. Evans of Washington. Said Secretary-Treasurer Don Hurd: the vote was "not merely re-election of the incumbents, but is a general membership affirmation of the policies they pursued." That was notice to publishers not to throw away their Vari-Typers; the pursuit would continue.

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