News Notes

> Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down) has joined the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, will go overseas soon as war correspondent.

> A stockholder's proposal that the pages of the Saturday Evening Post be opened to liquor, beer and wine advertisers was voted down at the Curtis Publishing Co.'s annual stockholders meeting last week. The Post has never run liquor ads.

> "Bible paper" is the expensive, super-thin paper on which Bibles and dictionaries are printed. This month, to reduce paper consumption, the bawdy magazine Esquire began printing some of its risque cartoons on "Bible paper."

> When President Roosevelt visited Montgomery, Ala. a fortnight ago on his then-secret cross-country tour of war plants and army bases, many a Montgomery citizen saw him or heard about it. The censorship-bound Montgomery Advertiser, unable to print the news, angrily carried on its Page One a brief item, void of names, saying: "Yes, the Advertiser knows that he was here yesterday. . . . Nearly everybody else in Montgomery knows he was here--when he arrived and when he departed. If the details ... are still interesting when the lords of free speech in Washington decide to let the news be printed, the Advertiser will print such part of the details as it may remember by that time."

> Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper, Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor and Washington Starman Blair Bolles last week were in London, en route to visit Sweden. National Broadcasting Co.'s London man, Elmer Peterson, will go with them.

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