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...young printer by the name of T. B. Dowden turned up in the shop of the Cincinnati Gazette looking for work. The Gazette took him on and one morning at 2:30 o'clock, just before the Gazette went to press, Printer Dowden took from the news hook a piece of copy marked: "Must go in ten lines." Setting ten lines solid, he frantically tinkered the spacing, then appealed to the foreman: "My copy ends with Grand Old Party and I have two words left over. What shall...
Near Alpine, N. J., police removed one David Testori from a narrow ledge on the Palisades 300 ft. above the river. He had lived there two months, with a tarpaulin cover, a newspaper bed. some bread and potatoes, a razor, a fish hook, a bank book showing deposits of $719. He said he was afraid of people in New York...
...Stanford debate, following the successful broadcast of a debate with Chicago last spring, is the first coast-to-coast radio argument ever held in this country. It is to be followed by the transoceanic debate with Oxford University next week. Both hook-ups present many technical difficulties, overcome in a long period of experiment...
...ones, Advertiser Gannon was just as quick to sell his find to Prince Albert for $3,000 a week, on a year's contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents the real Alice Joy. a simple, ruddy-cheeked, home-loving girl who adores flowers and ivy-covered...
...Brattle Square structure was condemned by building inspectors and Harvard Square business men objected to the permanent removal of the apparatus to a distant station. Mayor Russell did not know yesterday how many pieces of apparatus would be accomodated but the original plans were for a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pumping engine...