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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...
...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...
Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley believed last week that he was about to become the owner of a volcano. He had been negotiating for the purchase of Paricutin, the volcano which poked through the cornfield of Mexican Farmer Dionisio Pulido, on Feb. 20, 1943, and quickly grew into a 1,500-ft. mountain, belching flame, smoke and lava. This week the cartoonist, after delicate and mysterious negotiations, expected to clinch the deal...