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Next day, only two hours after the staff had been told, the second oldest Manhattan paper† ran its obituary under an eight-column banner on Page One: "The New York Sun has been sold to the New York World-Telegram . . . Today's issue will be the [Sun's) last. . ." Shrewd, dapper Roy W. Howard, 67, boss of the 19 Scripps-Howard papers, had bought the setting Sun as swiftly and silently as 19 years before he bought the Pulitzers' disintegrating World (TIME, March...
...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...
Actually, by the time Waldrop splashed his eight-column banner (HOPKINS ACCUSED OF GIVING REDS A-SECRETS) across...
Notre Dame (which is on the Annapolis schedule), another sign blazoned: "When do you drop Navy?" From the Army side came the answering banner: "Today!" Then, in one of its most powerful exhibitions of the year, Army gave Navy its worst drubbing in their 50-game series...
Next day the States ran an exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...