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...McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...filled in the hollow. The results were gratifying, but not for long. After playing his instrument again, my patient was once again a picture of gloom. 'Doctor, my legato has improved . . . but now I lose my wind too quickly.' I partially closed up the arch in the bicuspid region. 'Fine,' said my patient after another experiment with his flute. [Then] the patient suddenly stopped and his face registered horror. 'Doctor, I'm losing my staccato...
Died. William Thompson Dewart, 68, since 1925 president of the arch-Republican New York Sun; in Manhattan. One of eleven children of a Scotch economist and unsuccessful railroad promoter, Dewart rose to the general managership of the late Frank Munsey's publishing enterprises at the age of 28. When Munsey died, Dewart came into control of the Sun, mutualized its ownership. He originated "Don't sell America short...
...offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character. He is never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor $5,000 to $7,000 weekly...
When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...