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Bill Murphy is no part of the newspaper tradition that copyreaders are just broken-down reporters. A Yaleman ('17) and onetime Wall Street bond salesman, he left Manhattan to work on the News-owned Detroit Mirror. When Patterson torpedoed it without notice in 1932, Murphy went back to the News to stay...
...called 'culture.' Harlem is there by way of a divine indictment against New York City and the people who live downtown and make their money downtown. The brothels of Harlem, and all its prostitution, and its dope rings, and all the rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what God thinks of Hollywood. And Hollywood is all Harlem has, in its despair, to grasp at, by way of a surrogate for heaven...
Other drawbacks to the 20 Walker St. quarters, she went on, include an overloaded wiring system--"when all 28 girls turn on their lamps at the same time, the lights go out,"--no space for smoking except the kitchen, and a bedroom mirror propped up in front of the living-room fireplace...
Tactful Benefits. This little flurry attracted a lot of attention, partly because it happened while the Anglo-American Council on Productivity was thrashing out ways & means of increasing British industrial efficiency. Labor's own Daily Mirror berated the dockers' action as "a strike against prosperity, a refusal to go forward with modern methods." Actually, in this case the employers were much at fault. When they put the stacking truck in, they violated a 1929 law forbidding employers to install labor-saving machines without consulting the workers first...
...Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based on the vote of Hart's Location, N.H., which gave Dewey 11, Truman...