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The change in caricature was doubtless more sensational to the magazine's staff than to the Washington public, which is now fairly accustomed to seeing statesmen and politicians baited. However some 2,000 copies of the revamped issue were bought in the Capital. Usual sale there is about 1,000. Instigator of the change is The Washingtoman's new General Manager Frederick G. Brownell, onetime editor & publisher of Buffalo Town Tidings, brother-in-law of Editor Peter Yischer of Polo. Mrs. Marion Banister, sister of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, continues as editrix. Newsmen Robert S. Allen, George Abell and Drew Pearson, reputed co-authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round, were reported helping to finance the magazine with their royalties from the book, but that might have been suggested by the fact that Pearson and Abell are announced contributors to the magazine, and that the principal page of chit-chat is headed "Merry-Go-Round."
High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois."
Odds, Ends
¶ Grafton Wilcox, onetime Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and for five years assistant managing editor, was appointed managing editor to succeed Armstead Richardson Holcombe, resigned.
¶ Dapper Major Frank Earl Mason, recently resigned president of Hearst's International News Service, returned from Europe to become a vice president of National Broadcasting Co.
¶ Subscribers to Metals & Alloys, magazine for metallurgical engineers, found the current issue bound within a cover of real aluminum, cold rolled to 2/1.000 in. thickness. The publishers stated that other magazines had appeared with metal foil applied to paper, but never before with a cover of rolled metal. Future issues may be bound in lead, copper, nickel, brass, steel, zinc, molybdenum if manufacturers can be induced to follow the example of Aluminum Co. of America and donate the metal.
¶ Publishers of Chicago's Jewish Courier announced a cut in salaries. Editor S. M. Melamed & staff walked out on strike, proceeded to publish their own daily. The real Courier suspended publication.
†Sunday edition scheduled to appear in January