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...struggling-authors, tireless writer of reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for the Sun for more than 15 years, scattering harmless anecdotes he had been accumulating ever since he began making friends as a Munsey magazine editor in the early 1900s...
Noodling the Newspapers. Maury Paul, a kinsman of the Philadelphia Biddles, broke in as a society reporter on Frank Munsey's Philadelphia Times in 1914. He soon moved on to Munsey's New York Press. Knowing nothing then of Manhattan society, he filled out a glowing story on his first big assignment, a Metropolitan Opera opening, by copying the names off the brass plates on box doors. Next morning Mr. Munsey summoned him and snorted: "You have succeeded in opening half the graves in Woodlawn Cemetery." Maury had reported present many an ancestral box holder long dead...
...started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden, he never discovered what, besides pouring in money, makes a great newspaper tick...
Magically reversed among Minneapolis newspapermen were the previous day's diatribes against able, round-faced John Cowles; no more was he called a coldblooded Midwestern Frank Munsey (paper-folder extraordinary of his day). With this deal John Cowles had taken Minneapolis as his father before him, with the Register & Tribune, took Des Moines and the State of Iowa...
Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey's magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham's Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles...