Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...underwrite the $1,000,000-a-year cost of getting pictures from any distance in about ten minutes (TIME, May 7; Jan. 14). When the project, secretly negotiated, was revealed at last year's AP meeting, two delegates fumed with rage. One was John Francis Neylan, brainy, brawny counsel for William Randolph Hearst, who holds 19 AP memberships. The other was peppery little Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard Newspapers), who has six. Lawyer Neylan roared at the AP management for "the most unjustifiable extravagance in the history of journalism." But Wirephoto supporters promptly pointed out that both...
Lawyer & Client. The newspaper world feels that a great publisher was lost when "Jack" Neylan, who looks like a well-groomed Abraham Lincoln, quit the San Francisco Call ten years ago to become general counsel for Mr. Hearst and all his enterprises. He had negotiated Hearst's purchase of that newspaper in 1919, taking the job of publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint...
...lunches at the Palace Hotel's "cabinet table" with local bigwigs; who is a regent of the University of California; who helped Hiram Johnson drive the Southern Pacific Railroad out of power 25 years ago but who now appears to be an archConservative, an apostle of property rights, counsel for bankers and Red-hater extraordinary...
...Only Himself To Blame.' Counsel for the defense handed up copies of various U. S. magazines and newspapers, pointing out that everything which was found in Roiderer's notebook had already been factually reported by ordinary journalists. The five judges of the People's Court took 45 minutes to draft a verdict of acquittal which would not be too dead a give-away of the New Justice. They could not say that Roiderer's jotted charges of homosexuality, sadism and camouflaged aggressiveness by some of the highest leaders of Germany were untrue, for their truth...
...good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda...