Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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José Iturbi was born in Valencia 34 years ago. In his early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to...
Two months ago Iturbi arrived in the U. S. Sailing up Manhattan harbor, he wept. He went to a hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea...
Taking down stories over the telephone, coordinating them, revamping them, the rewrite man softly cursing the reporter for not getting more and better facts, is routine in every newspaper office. But last week the New York Telegram received a story by telephone which occasioned no cursing, which no one dared...
As an inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard.
Two months ago the Amateur Athletic Union sent out some invitations with 5? stamps on them. There were five of them, addressed to the governing athletic bodies of Germany, France, Italy, England and Finland, asking 14 of the greatest runners in Europe to run in the U. S. this winter...