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...alert U. S. citizen last week could pick from among his fellow citizens as Man of the Year at the close of 1935 whom...
Virtually every editor who blazed away at his confreres cited the Englewood pic-ture-taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks...
Having seen the New Deal bungle in selection of cases to test the constitutionality of some of its other measures, friends of the National Labor Relations Act passed by Congress last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks...
...announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column Folks to visit his church in alphabetical sections, the church overflowed on four successive Sundays. Some 10,000 readers turned out when Nancy Brown's Column presented the Art Institute with a painting called Street in Brooklyn...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...