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This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

Focuses on the strategy used by publisher Manchester Boddy to revive the newspaper "Illustrated Daily News" in Los Angeles, California in 1926. Improvements made by Boddy to the editorship of the newspaper; Actions taken by Boddy to obtain control of the paper; Career background of Boddy.

The article presents a report on the kingmaker of the California republic party , Norman Chandler, publisher of the "Los Angeles Times," who has founded the "Mirror" in 1948 with his chief target the Democratic "Daily News." The "Daily News" was founded in 1923 by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., son of the Commodore. It soon passed into receivership and thence into the control of Manchester Boddy who published the paper for 26 years. Los Angeles naturally is talking of a new liberal newspaper. But can this city support five metropolitan dailies? Of the four which remain, only Chandler's "Times" is a money-maker. His "Mirror" has yet to finish a year in the black.