Word: bob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soup, Jesus, Farmers Sirs: In your issue of June 30, p. 4, Bob Lyle in his letter intimates that 50,000,000 cans of soup might have been sent to starving China by the American Bible Society for the cost of the 5,000,000 Bibles sent by them...
...wartorn, starving China last year. Because the Chinese make soup out of bird-nests, does the Bible Society think they can turn Bibles into Campbellite gumbo? For the money that these Bibles cost, at least 50 million cans of Campbell soups could have been sent to starving China. . . . BOB LYLE Biloxi, Miss...
...pinch-hitters last week "recalled" Davis himself, his generosity, kindness. patience, keenness, humor. Recalled Mrs. Rinehart: "Only Bob himself knows how many writers he has made, nursing them over the bad places, encouraging, cheering, criticizing." Mr. Cobb observed: "Mr. B. Davis is getting pretty brittle," and described how Davis turned his ankle on the houseboat deck, fell, fracturing two bones in the right ankle, tore ligaments and muscular fabric of the left knee...
Nebraska-born, Bob Davis learned the printer's trade in Nevada, news-reporting in San Francisco. In 1896 he went to Manhattan, joined Frank Andrew Munsey's staff in 1903, remained closely associated with the publisher until the latter's death in 1925. Later he became a director of the Munsey-owned Sun on a perpetual roving assignment, detailed by the Sun's President William Thompson Dewart who said: "My only instructions are that you see everything and write about it in your own vein. To you in the future, the whole earth is a local...
...carrying out that mission, Bob Davis has traveled 130,000 mi., written 500 columns, four books, started a syndicate, added enormously to his remarkable collection of friends...