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...door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
Within 30 seconds, Newshound Van Slycke had his hot tape on the air. KITE then wrapped up the story with another "on-the-spot report" when one of the station's own secretaries just happened along the street a few minutes later as cops collared the fleeing robber and his $455 loot...
Died. Louis Ruppel, 54, flamboyant, crusading reporter, columnist and editor, who began at 20 as a newshound (for the New York American), worked up through the rowdy Chicago press and became Collier's staff-eating, "off-with-their-heads" editor (1949-52); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. As managing editor of the Chicago Times (1935-38), Ruppel doubled its circulation by such tricks as having one of his reporters committed to a state mental hospital to get a series of Page One stories, disguising his photographers as clergymen, using siren-screeching ambulances to deliver World Series...
...with war brewing, Newshound Kaltenborn was sniffing out inside dope for U.S. radio listeners. Says he happily: "The intensity with which America listened to the radio reports of the Munich crisis was without parallel." In London after Munich, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy told him a secret: ' 'You have come to me in one of the most important moments in world history! We are engaged in a fight for time...
...budding newshound, editorial sage, camera man, or financial wizard? Looking for something interesting and different...