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Easiest pair of journalists to pick out in the great press box were patch-eyed Floyd Gibbons and grinning Will Rogers, wishing they were "back in China where something really happens." It was evident from his second Convention colyum that Reporter Gibbons, who also spoke over NBC, found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees...
Back cracked Reporter Rogers in his syndicated colyum: "H. L. Mencken was backing the Presidential candidacy of Senator France. If he had been elected the American Mercury would have re placed the Congressional Record...
...much lighter vein wrote "Congressman" Westbrook Pegler, whose sport colyum is syndicated through the Tribune: "I do not favor the return of the old saloon. Too many of our citizens owed bills in the old saloons, and if the saloons came back they would be subject to annoyance...
...mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot him in the ribs. When he revives in a hospital, the colyumist is unchastened but embarrassed by his accident. Judged by his jokes and witty sayings, Ricardo Cortez...
...ebullient young Publisher Roy Wilson Howard, whom he saw at Henry Latham Doherty's 62nd birthday party last week (see p. 42), experienced old Arthur Brisbane wrote in his Hearstpaper colyum: "He is the man, daring all for science, who grafted the dead New York Evening World onto the half-dead New York Evening Telegram and said to the world 'Now watch it run.' It doesn't exactly run, but when you consider everything, Mr. Howard has done well. All his friends hope that circulation will improve, and that New York merchants will change their minds...