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Some newspapermen think that the staid A.P. is becoming bolder while the brash U.P. grows more conservative. Still, the differences in their handling of the major news are sufficiently marked as to demand a story-by-story selection by conscientious editors. The fact that such a choice exists is the best measure of the U.P.'s contribution to a free press. The Associated Press in 1907 was a well-entrenched monopoly whose foreign news came from cartels, such as Britain's Reuters and France's Agence Havas; subsidized or directly influenced by their governments, they divided...
Marty Faye, 35, is a short, brash Chicago pitchman who believes that the surest way to make good in TV is to get the people to hate you. In his two months as proprietor of Marty's Morgue, a local interview show over Chicago's station WBKB. he has cheerfully managed to provoke daily threats of violence; in addition, he has brought down around his balding head the wrath of the town's teenagers, who bombard him with up to 1,00 letters a week for butchering their sacred cows...
Fully intending to take over city hall. Commissioner-elect Murray also laid siege to the statehouse, announced that Governor Meyner should give him control of Hudson County patronage. Brash Newcomer Murray had Meyner over a barrel. Meyner is running for re-election this year, and badly needs the 70,000 vote plurality Hudson County could give him. Moreover, Meyner, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 1960. needs to be re-elected by a handsome margin if he intends to stay in the big time. Says Murray, waiting for the governor to desert Kenny and come his way: "Meyner...
...shows called Little Johnny Jones and Little Nelly Kelly, and singers stretched "baby" to "ba-ay-ay-ay-bee." Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin on top and thick at the jaw, but he still exudes boyishness, whether socking home Yankee Doodle Dandy in strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan...
Silver Flood. She returned to Manhattan on a flood of silver that seemed potent enough to sweep everything before it. But high society stood firm. At a devastating party the women closed ranks and turned on Louise the glacial stare that the elite reserves for the brash newcomer. Sniffed one dowager: ''Mackay? Oh, Irish, of course. They don't even pronounce it properly" (i.e., Mackey instead of Mckye...