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In the Milwaukee Journal:

YALE TO ADMIT BRIGHT PUPILS*

Shake-Up at Collier's

To his office high above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, President Paul Smith of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. last week summoned Roger Dakin, editor for the past three years of the company's most important, and sickest, magazine, Collier's. Smith had bad news for Dakin: he was fired. The same afternoon, Dakin was out of the office and his $25,000-a-year job. But the parting was amiable enough. "Roger just didn't seem to get my message," said President Smith. "If I knew exactly what Paul's message was," answered Dakin, "I guess I'd still be...

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