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...lieutenant colonel in the infantry at 28, Harry Ashmore is one of the South's most lucid and least chauvinistic editorialists. To replace him at Charlotte, the News picked 47-year-old William M. Reddig, literary and feature editor of the Kansas City Star. Bald Bill Reddig, an all-round newsman for 25 years, has a book about the Pendergast machine (Tom's Town) coming out in the fall. As a Democrat on a Republican paper, he always wanted to write editorials, jumped at the chance when the Democratic finger of the Charlotte News beckoned...
...complements the news, whereby it is taken for granted that one keeps up somewhat with the daily papers (here, American readers have an advantage). In addition, it gives later published facts about subjects that are in the center of the news, thus being able to bring off a good, all-round article about an event which has not yet been cleared up in the daily papers (e.g., the Pearl Harbor scandal...
Director Rogell got cowboys to double for the stars. Though women have never been allowed in the Stampede, the picture's plot calls for a hard-riding heroine to shame the hero into being a real bronco-busting man. A former world's champion all-round cowboy, Jerry Ambler, got the assignment to double for redheaded Joan Leslie. In a red wig, he came out of the chutes at the fair grounds, astride a bucking bull. The grandstands hooted...
...strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...
...sports story for Hearst's old New York American with his full name, and Sports Editor Harry Cashman, striking out the Alfred, told him, "From now on you're Damon Runyon." The byline was to make him several millions as a war correspondent, fictioneer, movie producer, columnist, all-round reporter and tamperer with the language. His Broadwayese delighted Britons as well as Americans; and grammarians were alarmed by the numbers who preferred Runyon's English to the King's. Webster never told them that a G was $1,000, a wrong gee a no-good...