Word: bingay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michelson's Republican competitor, GOPressagent Theodore Huntley, Columnists Drew Pearson & Robert Allen last week told an astonishing tale which Washington accepted is true in spirit, if not in fact. Greeting at his office Malcolm W. (''Bing!") Bingay, who left the Detroit news five years ago to edit he Detroit Free Press, Mr. Huntley said: "How do you do, Mr. Bingay-how are you and how's the Detroit News?" Editor Bingay's Free Press has for several years conducted a running Ight with Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. but Pressagent Huntley's next conversational ambit...
...Bing") Bingay, editorial director of the Detroit Free Press. Editor Bingay, bald and fat, carefully segregated the majority of U. S. newspapers as law-abiding institutions. But the yellows and the "equally sinister group that is in the twilight zone, the near yellows, which parade under a cloak of respectability," said he, "created the fiction of the gangster and then through that fiction made him into a reality." Excerpts from his speech: ". . . [Yellow] newspapers create for headline purposes catchy, attention-arresting names for the bands of marauders. In my home city ... it is the 'Purple Gang.' . . Most...
...prodigious memory, and this year won honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously, likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited he used to spit on the floor but has broken himself of the habit...
MALCOLM W. BINGAY The Detroit Free Press Detroit, Mich...
...Editor Bingay, thanks for thanks...