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...bureau consists of two reporters: Ray Henle and Malvina Stephenson. Henle handles the "heavy" news, energetic Miss Stephenson does the chitchat items and the legwork. On Sunday nights they feed West Virginia a program of intimate, homey details about what West Virginians are up to. The state's Washington delegation, most frequently mentioned, listens expectantly and attentively. Outraged complaints to the network from Capitol Hill are frequent-but they keep up a lively interest...
...papers (The New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, etc.), all of whom bought him sight unseen. What they got were 1) excerpts from Welles's favorite reading, the Farmer's Almanac; 2) handy hints about cooking; 3) cocksure remarks about foreign affairs; 4) personal chitchat...
...began as an insurance salesman's teaser. Its publisher, lean, lively Glenn Burrs, was once a saxophonist of small distinction from Dixon, Ill. In 1933 he began selling insurance on the side and talked his partner Albert Lipschultz into financing a small throwaway sheet of musical chitchat for their dance band clients. The venture was a net loss, and Lipschultz finally sold out to Burrs...
Ernie himself was never happy at a desk. Despite his shyness, something drove him on to move around, meet new people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter...
...blatantly American word "scandal" TIME apologizes, substitutes "chitchat...