Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about the last time the San Francisco press erred on the conservative side. In its rowdy, street-brawling career it has spawned some rich newspaper legends and some tough and capable newspapermen. One of the best of them, City Editor John Bruce of the Chronicle, has marshaled the legends and the men in Gaudy Century (Random House; $3.75), a new book as bouncy and nostalgic as a ride in a stagecoach...
Hang an Editor. In the bad old days, says Bruce, editors shot at each other on the streets as often as they did in print. One is reported to have kept a card over his desk: "Subscriptions received from 9 to 4; challenges from 11 to 12 only!" A newsman who was slow on the draw had no future. (But editors were careful not to shoot a subscriber...
...generations after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
Free Mooney. Whimsical Johnny Bruce, an editor who never finds it necessary to shout or swear at his staff, was weaned on the newspaper lore of his town. At nine, the year after the 1906 earthquake, he hawked the Bulletin in San Francisco's Mission district...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...