The Press: Good-by, Benj.

Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square. Saturday Evening started to follow Franklin toward limbo, leaving the word Post baldly staring from the cover in unfamiliar type. Neither inside nor out did the once fabulously successful weekly look like its old self.

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