The Press: Willkie in Print

One day last week Publisher Roy Howard buzzed around Philadelphia in a green sports coat, green-striped flannels, green bow tie, green shirt, green pocketchief. Mr. Howard was happy, and for a reason. Said he, just before he snaked G. 0. P. Wendell Willkie away for a weekend on the Howard yacht Jamaroy: ". . . Willkie is a newspaper candidate instead of a radio candidate. That appeals to me. . . . It had been getting so that candidates were considering newspapers a secondary medium, using newspaper presentation as a sort of by-product of their radio speeches."

Many another newsman could pardonably...

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