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...Dock Strike (TIME, July 16) has ended. Strikers at nearly every port resumed work. The press does not mention the terms on which settlement was effected, but as it was unofficial and against the advice of the men's leaders, it is presumed that the strike simply fell through...
...exciting race may have a tragic ending. Of the three balloons not located at the time this column went to press, the Navy A 6698, in charge of Lieutenants Louis J. Roth and T. B. Null sank in Lake Erie. A water-soaked log picked up in the waters of the lake bears a last scarcely legible entry, "All over...
...knocked out Willard. The pictures were identical in every attitude except for the "doctoring" of a few details and putting a Gibbons head on Willard. Under the picture the American printed: "Gibbons began to back away from Dempsey's terrific body blows in the fourth. Here he is pressed up against the ropes..." The Associated Press reports said that the only time Gibbons "went to the ropes" was in the fifteenth round. This correction was incorporated in later editions of the American, But the American was not at all flustered by the expose. It accused the Tribune...
...During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines...
...thoroughly at a loss as to the line of conduct one follows with an unroasted duck. In fact, she may be secretly annoyed. Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep...