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...such happenings seemed like shadow-boxing compared to the brawls in which the Guild found itself last week in Newark, Washington and Oakland, Calif...
...Newark is a tabloid newspaper called the Ledger, published by a brawny, hot-tempered Westerner named Lucius T. Russell Sr. Setting himself up in Newark some 15 years ago, Publisher Russell attracted instant attention with a local vice crusade, splashed pictures of Newark brothels with names of the property owners daily on the Ledger's front.page. His crack rewrite man was Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, later to win the Pulitzer Prize for his European correspondence for the old New York Evening Post (TIME...
Last week a stock model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...
...days later the record-breaking Douglas was scheduled to make a dawn-to-dusk round-trip flight between Newark and Lines' new Miami to high-speed inaugurate schedules Eastern with Air Douglas equipment. Pioneered by TWA, which put up $140,000 for its development, the Douglas Luxury Airliner is now used by Eastern Air. General Air Lines, American Airlines, Pan American Airways, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Deutsche Lufthansa, Swissair, Spanish Airlines and Austrian Airlines...
...Wall Street Journal, persuaded the Sun to let him print "The Great Game" for a price. Soon other managing editors of other papers, who had been close personal friends of Mr. Kent's when they were Washington correspondents, had negotiated the same sort of deal?Arthur Sinnot of the Newark News, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald, Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star. Then for the first time the Sun agreed to full syndication of the column, yielding Pundit Kent considerable extra income. Last week McNaught Syndicate had signed contracts with 42 newspapers without trying, expected to double...