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Yates's mother, Elizabeth Brunton Yates, was Dickens' favorite actress. Yates, who was born in 1831, was a clerk in the General Post Office when he turned to spare time journalism in 1852. He wrote for Chambers' Journal, the Daily News and Dickens' Household Words, meanwhile trying to persuade London newspapers to let him do a gossip column for them. In 1855 a new paper called the Illustrated Times let him try this new experiment in journalism. It was so successful that within three years Yates was invited to edit a new paper, Town Talk...
When the Washington Post's Music Critic Paul Hume got back to his office from Constitution Hall one night last week, he addressed himself to an uncomfortable chore-criticizing the President's daughter. He had just heard Margaret Truman's Washington concert. In a sense, it had been a triumphal occasion: the hall had been packed with Washington bigwigs, including both her father and Clement Attlee; Soprano Truman had looked radiant on the stage and had drawn waves of friendly applause...
Atom Bombers. While such big-city papers as the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Francisco
...change. For more than $5,000,000 in cash, they sold all their stock to short (5 ft. 3 in.) Samuel I. Newhouse, 55, able owner of the Harrisburg (Pa.) News (circ. 85,363) and Patriot (circ. 31,249), the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal (circ. 126,179) and Post-Standard (circ. 77,970) and a string of five other Eastern dailies. Said Newhouse happily: "Most of my papers were sick when I got them. The Oregonian is the first that is at the height of its power and prestige...
...proved it by graduating from the University of Missouri a Phi Beta Kappa, then tried the newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...