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...Allen Carlin," had begun a 30-day incarceration. But Reporter Bernard was not suffering from a breakdown nor looking for an eccentric vacation. He was on a job: to investigate asylum conditions for an exposé of New York's politically controlled lunacy commission system. Sharp City Editor Amster Spiro had given him the assignment because Reporter Bernard had done some good sleuthing for the Journal before. But what was only a stunt for Editor Spiro turned out to be near-disaster for Reporter Bernard; last week he had to go to a private sanatorium to recover from...
Last week Amster Spiro, 43, since 1927 city editor of Hearst's largest newspaper, the New York Journal which claims the largest evening newspaper circulation in the U. S. (650,000), launched "Flash News," just such a game with just such features. Two to six persons may play. Each is given a cardboard newspaper front page dummy. Players roll dice in rotation, take from compartments numbered two to twelve, according to the total of their dice, an item, headline, picture or special instruction card. Object of the game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page...
...Early this year City Editor Amster Spiro of the Journal saw in Editor & Publisher how Japanese newspapers use carrier pigeons. Promptly he bought eight pairs of pigeons from the U. S. Army, bred & trained them under an oldtime Army expert...
...came into railroad shares last week. Wall Street's explanation: the Coolidge Commission is expected to come put soon with a "hardboiled" report urging that railroads scale down their capitalization. One suggestion Wall street did not expect the Commission to follow was made last week by Nathan Leonard Amster, president of Manhattan (elevated) Railway. He reiterated his plea of long standing: that if all roads were merged into one the railways would save $500,000,000 a year, "enough to practically pay the interest on all outstanding railway bonds." Nor was W'all Street stirred by the outcome...
...face as wrinkled as a walnut, Nathan Amster says he is "in the financial business." He emigrated to the U. S. at 20, prospected in West Virginia coal fields, drifted west, developed rich copper claims. Wall Street has known him as an independent financier and market operator. He was one of the first men to bull Boston & Maine during the early stages of its rehabilitation. Always keenly aware of the value of publicity, he once advocated consolidation of all U. S. railroads into one huge system...