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Ohio-born Buck Crouse started off as a cub reporter in Cincinnati, long ago wound up his newspaper career as a columnist on the New York Evening Post. Besides writing books (Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, Murder Won't Out), he was for five years press agent for the Theater Guild. Chided by his employers for not getting enough publicity for Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, he defended himself by reporting that he'd managed to get George Washington's picture on 2? stamps...
...cub reporter on the Omaha World-Herald in the early 1900s, Henry Doorly held his job mainly because he was the publisher's prospective son-in-law. But he went to town as an advertising salesman, quickly became advertising manager, then business manager. Last week Salesman Doorly, publisher of the World-Herald since 1934, helped Donald Nelson sell other U.S. publishers on a worthy idea: arousing the people to gather steel scrap...
...excited as a cub stumbling on his first big story, dapper Roy Howard scampered to a telephone and shot the story to the Times, three blocks away. But Reporter Howard was badly scooped. Forty minutes before the Times finally lumbered out on the street with his story, the opposition News was out with an accident extra, complete with pictures and an eyewitness account by one of its own reporters...
This is World War II's best book to date about U.S. Army life. It is a realistic, informative, good-natured sketch of what life in camp is really like, written with a certain cub-like charm. It approaches Army life with just the right touch of hard-boiled banter to take the sting out of it. If a book can build morale, this should...
...unforeseen scholastic jolt enabled Yale's Freshman golf team to upset the previously unbeaten Yardling linkmen 5 to 4 yesterday at Belmont Country Club. But the Eli linkmen were only the vanguard of a Bulldog Cub invasion, for Yale's Freshman track and tennis teams are in town today on the Crimson racqueteers and runners...