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...Sunday circulation. Scripps-Howard editors came & went with dismal regularity on the News without materially changing this situation. Last year it was Charles B. McCabe. Last month, it was Charles E. Lounsbury, a Denverite, who was given an indefinite leave of absence. Last week it was Forrest Davis, crack Scripps-Howard reporter, who found himself behind the editor's desk of the News...
Lord Beaverbrook is a Canadian. His crack cartoonist is a New Zealander. who moved to Australia, finally graduated to the Mother Country. At his large draughtsman's table, where he puffs innumerable black cigars, he earns $50,000 yearly...
That man is George Sylvester Counts. Last week the slight, peppery Professor of Education in Columbia University's crack Teachers' College turned up in Palo Alto, at Stanford's expense, to address 1,800 educators assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...
...stand last week Plaintiff Frink, now a crack cinema critic, convulsed her court audience with an account of her life with MacArthur. Their romance began at the water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...
...morning last week Enoch Kuklinskie and his father were working with pick & wheelbarrow about 65 ft. below the surface when they heard the rotten timbering begin to crack. They filled up the wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...