The Press: Thirty Seconds over Truman

When in doubt, many a Hearstpaper's editor turns to the New York Journal-American, favorite of "The Chief," to get his cues. A handy day-by-day echo of W.R.'s policies and moods, it accurately calls his often devious signals. The tabloid Mirror, its morning cousin, can usually hear the quarterback best, being closest. But last week Hearst's Manhattan running mates got their signals crossed.

Splashed across Page Two in the Sunday Mirror was what was billed as "the first of four intimate articles" on President Truman, sympathetically 'slanted by I.N.S. Correspondent Bob Considine (coauthor of Thirty Seconds over Tokyo). How was Harry Truman...

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