The Press: Dodd's Memorial

The late ex-Ambassador William E. Dodd would no doubt have approved the motives of his 35-year-old son, William Jr., in setting up a William E. Dodd Foundation to foster his Jeffersonian ideals. But he might have wondered at some streamlined Jeffersonian aspects of the memorial which that Foundation subsidized last week.

It was a 24-page leftist newsmagazine called U. S. Week. Published in Milwaukee, its subscription rate was $1 for 40 weeks. Editorial talent came mainly from ex-employes of the leftist Manhattan tabloid PM. Among them were Associate Editor Richard O. Boyer (ex-PM foreign correspondent) and National Affairs Editor Leo Huberman (ex-PM...

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