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Vincent Paul Sullivan is one of the few radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year...
...whose sense of showmanship is fullgrown, announced that the $5,000 price he had resoundingly placed on Karpis' head week before (TIME, May 4) would be paid no one, since he and his G-Men had traced and captured the killer without assistance. It was indicated that Karpis, born Raymond Karpavicz 26 years ago in Canada, would be tried for the $100,000 snatching...
...book-length biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing...
Chicago's mammoth public school system hires 13,000 teachers, educates 460,000 pupils at a yearly cost of $71,000,000. Few U. S. educators, however, feel any strong urge to rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking...
Show Downs. The first thing in his life that Torkild Rieber set his mind upon was his own career. Born in a little town called Voss in the interior of Norway, he went to sea at 14, thereby upsetting the future plotted for him by his father, a progressive woolen manufacturer who expected to rear his eldest son in the family business. Son Torkild learned seamanship in sailing vessels, passed his examination for a master's ticket at 19, got his first command at 21. It was a sailing vessel and, more important, an oil tanker...