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...Weekly's editor, aging (69) Walter Howey, prototype of The Front Page's Managing Editor Walter Burns. Just four days before his death, Hearst removed Howey and replaced him with mild Ken McCaleb, 50, who had done an able job of sparking up the New York Mirror's Sunday magazine. Howey, himself one of the eight executors named in Hearst's will,* remains as an "editorial consultant" and editor of the Boston Hearstpapers, but reportedly his power is on the wane...
...father, but lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American. At 23, he was boosted up to be president, and stayed on the job with the merged Journal-American...
Henry Clay & Mrs. Morris. There were still other sides to Johnson. He subscribed to newspapers and magazines (including the New York Mirror), learned to play the guitar and followed local and national politics. At 12½? a shave, 25? a haircut, his shop-for white men only-sometimes took in $30 a day, and he lived accordingly. In his house were piano, guitar, flute and violins. He left a library of several hundred volumes, including French and Spanish grammars and Shakespeare. But for William Johnson, free man of color who hired white help on his farm and had many white...
...olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
...Daily Mirror's "hokum" crack was a reference to Robinson's training quarters at Windsor's Star and Garter Hotel, where thousands of curious Britons, acting for all the world like U.S. bobby-soxers, craned and crowded for a glimpse of Robinson and his flamboyant 14-man entourage or a peek at the gaudy fuchsia convertible* parked outside. Turpin, 23, son of a British Guianan and a white British mother, trained in the placid remoteness of Grwych Castle in North Wales...