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About a year ago, Hamm hit upon his religious-cartoon idea. He made an auto tour of five states to canvass newspaper editors, promptly went to work when he found that almost all of them were for it. Their enthusiasm has been hard on the Hamm bankroll. Realizing that with 108 papers to service he can no longer swing it alone, Hamm is currently looking for sponsors to back the enterprise. But he turns down any suggestion that he charge for his cartoons, or invite "contributions" from the newspapers...
...come back without the story"). He had developed many a bannerline expose through his dogged, relentless pursuit of the smallest story clue, spent as much as $50,000 to break a hot story. In 1936, for example, by sending a dozen reporters on a house-to-house canvass, he exposed a fraud in St. Louis voting registration lists, won the P-D its first Pulitzer Prize for public service. "And," he noted proudly, "Bovard didn't know a damn thing about it before I started...
From now until election day, the H.Y.R.C. will continue its canvass in wards seven and eight in Cambridge. Here it is seeking votes for W. Donnison Swan '17, A. John Serino, and Frances W. Lindstrom, candidates for the lower house of the General Court and Copley Amery, Jr., '12, who is running for the state senate...
...College's political organizations have named the slates they will support, staked out the territories they will canvass, and planned their methods. Results in some of the districts are so clear cut because of voting habits in those places that the parties plan scarcely any fight...
...course Salesman Talbott became advertising vice president of Joyce, Inc., one of the world's biggest makers of women's play shoes. To get a line on women's likes & dislikes, he tried a door-to-door canvass, but busy housewives gave him the brushoff. So he packed a laundry bundle and started talking to women at self-service laundries, where they had plenty of time to kill. Besides talking, he read magazine ads to the women to see which words got a rise out of them...