Word: cub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these balmy days of 26 mile 385 yard footraces and round-the-world-in-a-Piper-Cub derbies it seems only natural that the distance-oriented portion of the lunatic fringe should turn its attention to the bicycle as a means of bringing on an untimely heart condition...
...heroes. He had concentrated on chemistry, like Fellow Dasher Conant, but after hitting the books with some success (he took his degree in three years), he decided that science was not his field. The most attractive job he could find was a place as a cub reporter on the Boston Transcript. He was just learning his way around when President Wilson called out the National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that he had joined Battery A a while before and that he'd better...
...Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live cub to hounds. It is well known that this is bad for the hounds...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
...well. It pays neither rent nor taxes, accepts no ads, and rakes in (along with its sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office, where he dictates stories and headlines to his secretary. Editor Jack Fleischer, able predecessor of Ken Foss, tried to introduce U.S. methods to the Zeitung but didn't get far. The editor won the right to read the copy (it used to go direct from secretaries...