Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing a Sunday feature page called the "True Life Section," where the P-D ran "scrupulously true stories about people and their lives." He still writes that kind of story, but the section was killed long ago by the. late Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard. Said O.K.B.: "Too many cornfield murders...
...love for cornfield journalism, gruesome and otherwise, kept mild Bee Behymer from ever graduating from the Post-Dispatch, while generations of St. Louis newspapermen he knew (Westbrook Pegler, Theodore Dreiser, Silas Bent, Herbert Bayard Swope, et al.) came & went. A little (125 Ibs.) man with unruly grey hair, a too-big nose and a small mustache, he is proud that he never had to take a drink or buy one to get a story. As a solid senior citizen of Lebanon, Ill., he sings a raspy bass in the Methodist choir, is a trustee of small McKendree College, writes editorials...
...Enterprise. In New Guinea, a G.I. found an abandoned cornfield, spread the word that he was an experienced moonshiner, did a land-office business...
Died. Milton Snavely Hershey, 88, philanthropist, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys; in Hershey, Pa., the company town (neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers sometimes complain of "da chockle shtink") he founded in a cornfield in 1903. In 1937, after having transferred his assets to the school (enrollment: 1,000), he said: "I have in the world, now, my clothes, my furniture, a few securities, and nothing else...
Readers of Hearst's American Weekly (circ. 8,135,982) whose Sunday breakfast is a pumped-up omelet of cornfield murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...