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Pushing into Long Beach, reporters found that that town was hardest hit. A theatre, the Woodrow Wilson High School, the Press-Telegram building were wrecked. Two firemen were crushed in their firehouse. Fifty-one citizens were dead. The Seaside Hospital had partially collapsed, killing ten patients. Doctors treated hundreds in the streets, operated under automobile headlights on people lying on litters which still trembled with the ceaseless subterranean labor. Death and injury came in weird forms. Many people hurt themselves leaping from windows. An expectant mother, pulled from wreckage, died as her baby was born...
Reporter Young: Mr. President, this is Mr. Tucker of the World-Telegram...
...Hoosier, was brought up in Columbus, Ohio. During the War he served "briefly" with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia; after the Armistice continued his education at Williams, Toronto, Oxford, Heidelberg, Marburg, Bliss Business College. Off & on a newshawk for ten years (on the Ohio State Journal, New York Telegram, New York Daily News, New York Herald-Tribune), he tried his hand unsuccessfully at writing advertising copy, teaching school, studying medicine. Rackety Rax's success gave him a better idea...
...average upperclassman writes three letters per week. A letter goes home once every two weeks, and many replied that they never write unless prompted by a stormy letter or a telegram. Eight per cent used wire exclusively. In Lowell one man was found who has been writing a letter every day to a girl in the mid-west for the last two years. "At first I used to write twice a day, but it was hard to keep up." He had no idea how he managed to fill the space...
Some case histories turned up for the crusading New York World-Telegram by welfare workers...