The Press: Looping with the Post

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"If you were to get rid of Communist propaganda in the Boston Public Library, you would have to withdraw from it the Boston Post itself because it quotes what Stalin has said on various occasions . . . The oversimplified position that you can just throw out all Communist propaganda by a wave of the hand ... is not a simple solution. It is a simpleton's solution."

Unfazed by the criticism, Publisher Fox last week claimed that his circulation and advertising are rising so much that by month's end the Post will be making money for the first time in five years. Outsiders were skeptical of the claim. But there was no doubt that, despite John Fox's unwise visit to the public library, the Post had picked up. Said Fox: "It's looping now . . . This paper had been losing money with no need for it. It went ten years without any active management, and primarily that was what it needed . . . The readers want color, and we'll give it to them."