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...long as his plump World-Herald continued to get nearly three-fourths of Omaha's newspaper revenue, cautious Publisher Henry Doorly was glad to have William Randolph Hearst's afternoon Bee News drone about, frightening away any stronger competition. But last week when the concluding edition of the long-doomed Bee News went to press at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Publisher Doorly was in Chicago to hand Hearst representatives a $750,000 check for the Bee News plant and its 95,000 circulation...
...Bee News was also said to be the end of Mr. Hearst's three-month "reconstruction" plan to kill three newspapers, effect other economies. In nine years the Bee News had cost Publisher Hearst nearly $7,000,000. The most expert Hearst tinkering could not save a losing proposition from Nebraska's preference for a home-grown product...
Civil War Telegraph Operator Edward ("Little Rosie") Rosewater started the Omaha Bee ("Industry, Frugality and Service") in 1871 to further his dabblings in old guard Republican politics, carried the paper to national fame before his death in 1906. The politically powerful Bee began to slip under Son Victor Rosewater, did little better under millionaire Politician Nelson B. Updike who bought it in 1920, and was not helped when Updike merged it with the moribund Daily News, a onetime Scripps unit...
England has long boasted the so-called "Queen Bee" type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As yet it has no military importance because the system breaks down as soon as the "Queen Bee" gets out of sight of the operator. Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps announced in enigmatic but unusually enthusiastic language for that reticent group that it had gone the "Queen Bee'' one better. According to the Air Corps, an old single-motored Fokker...
...Bronxville, N. Y. High School to perform and when he wrote it the author of Pulitzer-Prizewinning John Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...