The Press: Death Notices

In Manhattan, after two years' planning and plowing through thousands of dollars of Marshall Field's and other men's money, Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins last week pulled the sheet over his projected leftist Collier's-type magazine, to be known as USA. Costs were too high now, he said. He hoped to try again.

In Washington, D.C. the U.S. Journal, a glossy 10ยข daily which sought glory as the only Washington outlet for Walter Winchell, gave up after only three weeks. Cause of death: poor circulation.

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