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Like the Bryans, Publisher Slover had other interests-real estate, banks, the Norfolk & Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal} and his successor, lean, hawk-nosed John Dana Wise, the Times-Dispatch got back on its feet. Last year, with a circulation of 82,176, it was not far behind the News Leader...
Like all his clan, John Stewart Bryan is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), gregarious, fond of telling dry anecdotes. In his 68 years Publisher Bryan has accumulated many honors: he is president of the College of William & Mary, an overseer of Harvard University, a director of the Southern Railway...
...Massachusetts man heard all he could stand, ran and planked down his savings ($3.25) for a railway ticket. He traveled 60 miles before he found out he was fleeing a bogeyman...
...aircraft had flown over Norwegian territory scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway's southwestern tip. Norwegians muttered that if British intrusions did not stop, Norway might stop leasing much-needed tankers and freighters to Great Britain...
...Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...