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When he came out again, Senator Fess looked overheated. His eyes danced and his collar looked too big for him. The merest cub of a White House newsgatherer could have seen that something had happened, that Senator Fess had something more than usual to say. He was, in fact, going to reproduce for the newsgatherers the conversation he had just had with President Coolidge...
...When the Coolidge limousine stopped on the way to the Lake Hotel a bear-cub, his face curled into an ingratiating imitation of a Washington lobbyist asking favors, approached the Coolidges as if they had been ordinary tourists, sat on his haunches and begged for food. He got none...
...York) has a red-eyed elephant and a crouching panther on his desk. Last week a female bear cub joined them, prowled around among paper knives and cigar ashes. The elephant and panther are bronze. The bearlet is flesh and blood, was sent to the Zoo, named "Miss Sullivan...
...addition of the British general strike, the North Pole, and the Florida hurricane, the list of news stories mentioned above must inevitably be considered the best and the biggest news of the past year. Someone once told Eric C. Hopwood of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, when he was a cub, that a newspaper should be like a mirror to the public consciousness in which it flourished. This is today the discouraging possibility. Even the most cynical of us must hope that such a list as this reflects not the whole of public opinion or interest, and that the fault...
...enough for me . . . NOT EVER!" And he had the wit to use his own difficulty as padding for an otherwise slim interview. He cunningly hit upon "Our Mary's" infinitive-splitter, the adverb "ever," as the key word for his story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor put it on the front page under a "by-line." Seasoned reporters eventually get used to seeing their names over stories-"By Joe Suggs," "By Jake Zilch." But "By the Cub...