Word: bartley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, newsmen on the New York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...
...rally, which is slated to support the Truman-Barkley ticket, includes as speakers Senator Brian McMahon (D., Conn.), Mrs. Borden Harriman, former minister to Norway, and Bartley Crum, editor of the New York Star...
...Bartley Crum, publisher of the New York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...
Dropping into the White House for a visit, New York Star Publisher Bartley Crum asked: "By the way, Mr. President, what exactly made you decide to run?" Glancing around the room, Harry Truman replied with a grin: "Where would I ever find another house like this?" This tidbit was reported by a gossip columnist last week. But by last week it was apparent that it would take more than wisecracks to keep Candidate Truman from househunting next winter...
...week be just a newspaperman's memory. The idealistic Manhattan tabloid, which its founders meant to be the voice and the solace of pushed-around people, had never made the grade either as a business proposition or as a newspaper. One day this week, seven weeks after Attorney Bartley Crum and Newsman Joseph Barnes took it over from disheartened Marshall Field (TIME, May 10), PM became the New York Star...