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...rumor in Washington to the effect that Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, 42, was about to have a baby. Experienced newshawks didn't quite know what to do with the story, even if they could verify it which they couldn't quite think how to. Several days later a cub on the United Press picked up the rumor from his superiors, and, without thinking much about it, telephoned Mrs. Longworth...
People who like coincidences were pleasantly shocked to learn that nominee Thomas was born in Marion, Ohio, in 1884, the year that Warren Gamaliel Harding became a cub reporter on the Marion Star. Should the Socialists do any electoral "cleansing" this autumn, Mr. Thomas will doubtless be sung by Socialist poets as a savior whose birth was portentous, if not miraculous...
...four departments open are the Editorial committee, the Business committee, the Photographic committee, and the Arts and Cub committee. The first three are in charge of C. M. Underhill '31, J. H. Smith '31, and L. N. Grimes '31. The chairman of the Arts and Cuts committee is not yet chosen...
...have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could have stepped in and carried off the prize. Michigan's Governor, Georgia's citizen, who started out in the world as a cub reporter, was born, like so many other famed writers, in the once-great but latterly self-belittled state of Indiana. Dr. Osborn evinced his faith in Indiana when, in 1926, he asked President Coolidge to let him occupy a cell in Atlanta Penitentiary as substitute for Indiana's Governor...
...found professional spirit, a policy for "live news" and a tendency to promoting "stinks"--Which he defines as "any controversy the reverberations of which should be more than of local and momentary importance." He also mentions that gradually editors of the Harvard paper have taken up jobs as cub reporters on metropolitan dailies during the summer or have worked as college correspondents for these same papers, thus further bringing to the CRIMSON the professional standpoint...