Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been so hard pressed for money that early last month it presented its readers with an ultimatum: unless subscribers came across with a full $50,000 in contributions, the paper would have to fold (TIME, Dec. 15). This week the Worker triumphantly announced that it had reached its goal. Where the Worker got the money was still a mystery. Even by its own bookkeeping, the donations had run as low as $3,600 a week, instead of the $6,000 a week the paper said it ".must receive" to reach $50,000. Furthermore, of the estimated 10,000 subscribers to the...
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