PM, which began life as a newspaperman's dream, would this week be just a newspaperman's memory. The idealistic Manhattan tabloid, which its founders meant to be the voice and the solace of pushed-around people, had never made the grade either as a business proposition or as a newspaper. One day this week, seven weeks after Attorney Bartley Crum and Newsman Joseph Barnes took it over from disheartened Marshall Field (TIME, May 10), PM became the New York Star.
It was indicative of the new team's thinking that the Star's first gleam was timed to...
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