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...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
...beard has earned for Bob Scripps a good deal of raillery, which he quietly relishes. Driving across the U. S.,* he says, he one day neglected to shave. For amusement he "let it grow," toyed with it from week to week. Amusement it may have been at the start; but the beard is now becoming part of the grave, punditical figure which Publisher Scripps suggests as he pens learned treatises on economics. Once more the organization is getting an Old Man. Something in the atmosphere of the Scripps-Howard offices suggests that this was necessary, that the subordinates feel that...
...ownership from his father) and editorial director. If imagination be stretched he could discharge his good friend Howard, second-biggest stockholder or General Manager Hawkins, third biggest. (The rest is distributed throughout the chain.) But neither aspires to be a dictator. To almost everyone in the company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows, is the dyed-in-wool reporter, the scoopster, the man who wants to be where everything is going on-and is. (Last week he returned from a holiday in Havana. Scripps...
...Scripps once said: "I'm going to have my troubles with Bob, but . . . when he gets his stride, he will be more like me than either Jim or John...
...Before she finished her two-year term she and Dr. Rinehart were engaged. As a young girl she had begun to write verse, which occasionally sold. After her marriage, to earn more money, she tried her hand at writing stories, sold her first one to Munsey's Magazine. Editor Bob Davis took an interest in her, encouraged her to keep on. The Circular Staircase, intended as a satire on crime stories, made a big hit as a bona fide thriller, and from then on Mary Roberts Rinehart's reputation increased steadily, also the size of her checks...