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Died. Sammy Bronstein, 81, onetime St. Louis newsboy who turned to money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back...
...would hang his big cotton bumbershoot on the edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight years on his $50-a-week salary, Umbrella Mike replied, "With great thrift...
...Last week, for the first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger. Suspended for ten days was the city's No. 1 agency, the combined Tyson Operating Co. and Sullivan Theatre Ticket Service. Out of a job was $40-a-week Clerk Theresa Hale, who extracted $10 from Businessman Philip Stogel for four tickets to Meredith Willson's cornfest, The Music...
...such a hurry to be on his way that he left the university without bothering to pick up his Phi Beta Kappa key. In 1922, after a bicycling trip through Europe, he went confidently to work as a $15-a-week cub on the Chicago Daily News. When the Teapot Dome scandal broke in 1924, he landed one of his first out-of-town assignments by observing that none of the news stones said what Teapot Dome looked like. In a breathless Inside report from Wyoming that made Best News Stories of 1924 and foreshadowed a familiar Guntheresque ploy...
...Inside Fodor." Soon afterward, the cocky young reporter put in for the Chicago Daily News's foreign service, which then boasted such prestigious byliners as Paul Scott Mowrer, his brother Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Hal O'Flaherty, Junius Wood. Turned down, Gunther quit his $55-a-week job and hopped a ship for England, where he was i) promptly hired by the News's London bureau, 2) fired when Chicago spotted his byline. After six months with the United Press in London, he was taken on by the News's Paris bureau and launched into an invaluable...