The Press: Magazines for Moppets

On U.S. newsstands last week was the second issue of a brand-new newspaper: Children's Times ("The Complete Newspaper for Boys & Girls"). The 10¢ semimonthly, 20-page tabloid, put out by Manhattan's Leader Enterprises Inc., had something for almost every child's taste. Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take him out of the...

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