The oldest Sunday supplement in the South has a new dress: the Atlanta Journal ("Covers Dixie like the dew") has a bright new four-color magazine section, designed to make Journal readers forget the charms of pseudo-science and warmed-over scandal.
For five years the Journal has included Hearst's lurid American Weekly, in addition to its own stodgy supplement. In 1939, James M. Cox (the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1920) bought the home-owned Atlanta Journal to keep, and Hearst's Atlanta Georgian-American to kill. To get the Hearst paper, he promised to keep using the American...
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