Word: allentown
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Testifying before the House Committee on Legislative Oversight in Washington, Max Hess, owner of a department store in Allentown, Pa., said that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...
...inducement to plug the Hess store in their columns. Nevertheless, that was what Hess got from three of the columnists. Said Considine, who wrote about the store's stock of exotic foods: "Made a nice little feature." Said Delaplane, who also wrote a complimentary piece after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess...
Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
...Twitmyer, Tom '59 QB 21 6.0 180 Mt. Airy, Pa. 16 Purdy, Larry '60 QB 20 6.1 174 Burlington, N.J. 17 Hanlon, Jack '60 LHB 21 6.0 190 Yonkers, N.Y. 18 Schantz, Peter '61 QB 18 5.11 174 Haddonfield, N.J. 20 Koze, Dick '59 RHB 21 5.10 170 Allentown, N.J. 24 Terpak, John '60 RHB 20 5.9 178 York, Pa. 26 Harding, Larry '61 RHB 19 5.10 175 Gloucester, Mass. 27 Rheinhart, Hiram '60 RHB 20 5.10 170 Ambler, Pa. 30 Sikarskie, Dave '59 FB 21 6.0 196 Petoskey, Mich. 33 Goodwin, Ed '61 FB 19 6.1 188 Millville...
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