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Metropolitan press photographers are the proverbial tough guys of U.S. journalism. They earn a thick-skinned living shooting pictures of gang fights, strikes, accidents and fires, are popularly supposed to take everything from illegal entry to abduction as part of the day's work. For eleven years, Marty Hyman has been rushing around Republican Philadelphia, snapping news shots for Dave Stern's brawling, loudly Democratic Philadelphia Record...
Called "the Feverish Five" and "the non-union gang" by the Guild shop paper, the rebels fought back with charges of Guild intimidation, spying, "forced" repudiations of the A.F. of L., calculated suppression of unfavorable Guild news, union decisions based on an average 4% attendance at unit meetings, rigged elections and much else...
...couldn't be bothered with Canada's real name: Lionel Canegata. Canada was born of West Indian parents in Manhattan's seamy San Juan Hill district (the Sixties near the Hudson). As a boy he got a reputation for licking toughs, including members of a Harlem gang called "the syndicate," and studied the violin under Negro Composer J. Rosamond Johnson. While still in grammar school, Canada ran away from home, became a stable boy and jockey in Canada, moved back to Harlem after a couple of years. He won 90 out of 100 amateur fights...
...Anyone can see," he said, "how bitter is the need of Hitler and his gang to cut sea roads between Great Britain and the United States and, having divided these mighty powers, to destroy them one by one. We must regard this Battle of the Atlantic as one of the most momentous ever fought in the annals...
Married. Phillips Lord, 38, versatile radio idea-man and producer (Seth Parker, We the People, Gang Busters, Sky Blazers); and Donnie Boone, 27, blonde onetime orchestra leader, great-great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone; he for the second time; in Manhattan...