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Divorced. By Joan Kaufman Biddle Wintersteen Polk, 32: Cowboy Frank F. Polk, 32; for the second time in less than 15 weeks; in Carson City, Nev. She married him Jan. 31, divorced him April 11, remarried him April 12. First of her three husbands was Playboy George Drexel Biddie of the Philadelphia Biddies...
...Lone Ranger, under that name, came into being in this generation for a radio public, but under various names he has been alive for many centuries. He was Ulysses, William Tell and Robin Hood; he was Richard the Lionhearted, the Black Prince and Du Guesclin; he was Kit Carson, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett; he was honest, truthful and brave-and so he remains...
...Specialist is young, handsome Lawrence Loy, a Kansan who has called dances since he was a boy, did the calls for Columbia's square-dance album. To back up Caller Loy, Columbia hired rangy, twinkling Carson Robison, a harmonica-burbling Kansas balladeer, no stranger to records and radio. Carson Robison's chief problem in making square-dance discs in the East was to find city fiddlers who could saw scratchy enough. He finally found them in Manhattan...
Only once was Carson outsmarted at his own game. In 1919 he himself was kidnapped by that other master of muscle journalism, Walter Howey (now editor of Boston Hearstpapers). Carson at that time was day city editor of the Chicago Tribune, under Editor Captain Joe Patterson. Howey wanted him for the Herald & Examiner. When Carson refused to come over Howey plotted with a mutual actor friend to put knockout drops in Carson's drink at a Loop bar. Then he took the doped editor home, guided his inert hand through a Tribune resignation and a Herald & Examiner contract. Carson...
...Carson muscle journalism and yellow journalism were very different things. Said he once to an office boy with reportorial ambitions: "The truth, itself, is usually plenty colorful; if you get all the facts, you won't need the embroidery of the imagination. Yellow journalism is exaggeration, misstatements, either direct or by implication. It stinks...