When the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia convened one day last week to decide what should become of the Washington Post (TIME, June 221 Hearst's Editor Arthur Brisbane was in the courtroom. So was Editrix Eleanor Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald, and many a potent Hearst attorney. Guessers guessed that Publisher Hearst's ,offer of $3,000.000 for the Post, with his own Herald and Times as security, might be taken up in preference to a somewhat similar offer by David Lawrence, publisher of the United States Daily, who also sat in the...
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