The Press: Zing & Wow

The new boy is, if anything, getting finer press notices abroad than at home. So great is European interest in President Kennedy that editors are pressing their Washington correspondents for an unprecedented flow of stories, dealing not only with Kennedy and his policies and advisers but with his family, his entertaining (the French welcomed the serving of champagne at the White House), and his cultural life.

"Suddenly, splendidly, America has been captured by a man inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken...

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