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...first news of Rumania's earthquake, travelling nearly five miles a second, arrived at the Harvard Seismographic' station Sunday, thus beating out the UP and AP reports by one hour and seventeen minutes, it was learned last night...
...AP's Oliver Gramling, 36-year-old head of the membership department, onetime reporter, city editor, bureau chief, told the story last week in a book titled AP-The Story of News.* An official history, assigned by AP, Author Gramling's volume nevertheless justified its subtitle. For the story went back to the origin of news-gathering in the U. S., told many a rousing anecdote of the press along...
...AP's Rome bureau head, Salvatore Cortesi, as a joke gave the name of Pope Pius X to AP's treasurer as a business reference. His Holiness duly received a letter asking for information, told Cortesi he would give him a good character...
...Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
...bureau director, in 1937 that Andy Bershak was the greatest end he ever coached, and then, a day or two later, said the same thing to Alan Gould, then sports editor of the Associated Press, about Brud Holland, Cornell's brilliant Negro end who had a shot on the AP All-American. Then he denied making the first statement. He was going like...