At Moy Mell, near Oceano, Calif., halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, appeared last week the first Subscriber's Number of the monthly Dune Forum, to "express the creative thought of America looking not toward Europe but toward the West." Editor of Dune Forum is Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 33-year-old grandson of the 21st President of the U. S. Five years ago Editor Arthur worked his way around the world on S. S. K. I. Luckenbach, for "material." In March 1932, his wife sued him for divorce for non support, said ''he just wouldn't work." Under the pseudonym of Gavin Arthur which he uses to create an ''independent name," Editor Arthur last week thought he had ''sufficient financial backing and . . . literary support to make Dune Forum the outstanding magazine of culture and controversy in the West."
In Lebanon, Ind., readers of the daily Reporter last week noticed a new column called "Here & There," signed by Albert J. Beveridge Jr. Columnist Beveridge is the 25-year-old son of the late Albert Jeremiah Beveridge. famed progressive-Republican U. S. Senator from Indiana (1899-1911), biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and Abraham Lincoln. The first week, in one of his columns, Son Beveridge defended President Roosevelt's budget message.
In Washington, Katrina McCormick, 20-year-old daughter of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, granddaughter of the late great Mark Hanna, wrote her first story as a cub reporter for the Washington Herald. It told how she shivered outside the Russian embassy before getting in to interview the wives of two attaches.