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Adams House will have three Nieman Fellows: Arthur D. Eggleston and Ralph J. Werner as non-resident members, and William M. Pinkerton as a resident. Eggleston, who will be here only for the first half year, is a labor columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has studied at the University of California. Werner is assistant financial editor of the Milwaukee Journal, and has emphasized a simplified presentation of financial and business news through charts, photographs, and "humanized" writing style. Pinkerton is a Washington reporter for the Associated Press, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and a specialist...
...were falling too thick and fast, so the workers averaged 20 hours of fire fighting every day, snatched cat naps and quick gulps of food washed down by tea served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week...
Even his mildest critics say that Beaverbrook is "slightly cracked." But a Canadian columnist summed up the general opinion of him thus: "Positive, bee; comparative, beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." To keep Britain's aircraft factories running during a Blitzkrieg is a job comparable to running General Motors' 38 U. S. plants in an earthquake...
...years ago Garden City, L. I. banned Rugg's books from its public schools. Soon reports of Rugg-beating emanated from many another town. Biggest row was in Englewood, N. J., home town of Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes. Mr Forbes, a member of the Englewood Boarc of Education, charged that the Rugg books were "subversive," for a year agitated unsuccessfully to have them thrown...
...Columnist Pegler's column mate Hugh S. Johnson moved in, grunting heavily: ". . . A 30-minute spray of typical Ickiness. . . . A barrage of gas, mud and fireworks...