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...Packager (Screen Gems) Harry Ackerman puts it, "the networks are run by businessmen, not showmen." Robert Edmonds Kintner, 50, has no quarrel with that situation. A Swarthmore graduate, he started out as a New York Herald Tribune Wall Street reporter in 1933. Son of a Stroudsburg (Pa.) schoolteacher, Cub Kintner, a lean, spectacled Hall-of-Ivy type at the time, at first "didn't even know where Wall Street was." But he learned quickly. Though an ardent New Dealer and F.D.R. favorite, able Newsman Kintner developed and retained a high regard for big "business. For five years in Washington...
...sole Brown touchdown came late in the second period after the Bruins had lost four yards in three plays. Rolling through a muddy Harvard defense, Cub quarterback Dennis Hauflaire snagged a pass from tailback Dennis Redding and galloped into the end zone. Brown missed the conversion, but seemed on its way to a victory when the half ended...
Which to Shoot? What is her uncanny power? It seems that the lion was found by the warden as a cub, and Patricia named him King and reared him, feeding him from a bottle and sleeping with him in her crib. When he finally became too big, he was banished to the wilds. But King still plays dead on Patricia's command. He loves the warden, too, and will wrestle with him on invitation...
Died. Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch, 83, apple-cheeked, cane-bearing, retired (since 1949) editor in chief of the Omaha World-Herald, who joined the paper as a cub in 1898, rose to become one of the nation's topflight editorial writers, won a 1920 Pulitzer Prize for his florid, horror-struck brief against race rioters, "Law and the Jungle"; of a heart attack; in Omaha...
...looking, White. 48, lived with his wife and 16-month-old son in a handsome house with a fine view of rich, rolling countryside. Austere and outwardly meek, he buried himself in the task of running the company he had created, but he found time to serve as a Cub scoutmaster, president of the chamber of commerce, a pillar of a neighboring town's Jewish temple...