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Like a good prizefighter manager, Dick Harlow has always been a firm believer in brining new men along slowly. To throw an inexperienced cub without proper seasoning into the ring or football stadium may often result in disaster for both player and team...
...rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work. To that house went his first wife, Elizabeth Watson, mother of his three children, who died in 1916. Two years later he married Hazel Whittaker of Fort Wayne, Ind., took her home there...
...year professional career has U. S. radio broadcasting encountered such a story as the brewing of World War II, and the networks went after it with the enthusiastic bustle of a newspaper city room on election night. On this assignment, radio was no cub. Its coverage of the Munich crisis and the Nazi occupation of Czecho-Slovakia were invaluable experience. For the last, exciting fortnight, radio's plans were consequently well laid. Correspondents reported daily, sometimes hourly from the main European capitals direct to U. S. listeners by radio telephone or short-wave pickups. Busy interpreters...
...these exploits Superman not only has to fly through the air, but to swim faster than a ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...
...Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever. In 1936, still immune, he nearly caused a diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London...