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Long expected by the staff, the demise of the Ivy League daily was planned so that the students would still be able to get official news, Chairman Eugene Holland, Jr., and Managing Editors J. Van Ness Phillip, Jr. and Benjamin H. Walker said in a joint announcement in the paper's final issue...
...President Benjamin Harrison had nominated Murat Halstead, crusading editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette as Minister to Germany. The Senate dug into his past, found he had written blistering exposes of the then common practice of buying Senatorial seats (Senators were elected by State Legislatures), and turned him down...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...
Many-sided Thomas Jefferson, like his contemporary Benjamin Franklin, forever suggests Renaissance man. New acquaintances will be dumfounded by the scope of his interests: science, music, horticulture, architecture, belles-lettres, astronomy, etc. But readers in the ominous glare of World War II are bound to be most absorbed by the most famous spokesman of American democracy when he speaks on his most famous subject...
...three times a week. Most of his day is taken up with conferences with the great layer of civilian and war-agency administrators below him; there are telephone conversations with Senators and Representatives, reading of reports and memorandums, plotting of strategy with his seasoned idea man, Benjamin Victor Cohen. (Except for idealistic Ben Cohen, Jimmy Byrnes's staff consists of but three others: Donald Russell, his onetime law partner in Spartanburg, ex-Washington Reporter Samuel Lubell, and corpulent Office Secretary Edward Prichard.) At 7 o'clock the White House car takes Jimmy Byrnes home for dinner; usually...