The Press: News Notes

> Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down) has joined the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, will go overseas soon as war correspondent.

> A stockholder's proposal that the pages of the Saturday Evening Post be opened to liquor, beer and wine advertisers was voted down at the Curtis Publishing Co.'s annual stockholders meeting last week. The Post has never run liquor ads.

> "Bible paper" is the expensive, super-thin paper on which Bibles and dictionaries are printed. This month, to reduce paper consumption, the bawdy magazine Esquire began printing some of its risque cartoons on "Bible...

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