The Press: The War Nobody Liked

When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents" in the war—Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow and...

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