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...Adolph Roome III, 14, more than 6 ft. tall, weight 235 lb., overgrown apparently from the disfunction of his pituitary body, a ductless gland which controls growth...
Home last week from a trip to Hawaii, Publisher Adolph Ochs, 73, of the New York Times, called the end of the New York World "an unfortunate and calamitous chapter in the history of American journalism. . . . Had I been in New York ... I should have saved it for the employes...
Sirs: Mr. Adolph Ochs, owner of what Comrade Mencken would call the "eminent" New York Times, having arrived in Hawaii on a holiday expressed himself to one of the local newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser, as follows...
Also into the proceedings was dragged the pathetic picture of the Brothers Pulitzer peddling the proud Worlds from door to door of Manhattan's leading publishers. They had approached Adolph Ochs of the Times, Ogden Reid of the Herald Tribune, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis of the Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, also, it was rumored, their former Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, backed by potent Democratic tycoons. No sale...
...dreamer. And who shall say that dreams won't come true?" The tour which he intended to be a triumph was a disappointment; it ended in bickering among the Queen and her friend Col. John Carroll, her aide Major Stanley Washburn, San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Adolph Spreckels, and the Queen's elderly friend. Dancer Loie Fuller...