Former Crimson Editor Buys PM

Former CRIMSON Managing Editor and President Joseph F. Barnes '27 will become Editor of New York's newspaper PM starting tomorrow.

Barnes, who at present is Foreign Affairs editor of the New York Herald Tribune, together with Bartley, C. Crum, bought controlling interest in the newspaper from Marshall Field, who has owned PM for most of the eight years of its existence, a release announced yesterday.

The new owners said they plan no immediate changes in PM's staff or policies.