Word: cubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NORMAN THOMAS New York City Pulitzer Cub...
...name appeared last week on the city staff schedule of William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. It was a new hireling, a cub reporter. His hours: 10 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., Monday through Friday. First day of the schedule, the cub failed to show up for work. Second day, he went to lunch with the Examiner's business manager, did not return. No assistant city editor rebuked him. The cub's name: Randolph Apperson Hearst...
...Harvard. His father was rusticated out of Harvard for scholastic deficiency 50 years ago. Son Randolph was ousted at midyear with "E" grades in four subjects. Also like his father Randolph returned to San Francisco. Examiner oldsters were forewarned of his arrival, ordered to treat him like any other cub reporter except that he was not to be fired, not to be called bad names...
...name of Ivy Lee, richest publicist in the land, is known to the greenest cub reporter (TIME, Aug. 7, 1933). Yet few newsmen ever saw him, few understood him, most resented or mistrusted him. Yet no one could deny his claim that he never asked a newspaper editor to print anything. On the other hand, newsmen well knew that Ivy Lee would give out just what information he considered helpful to his clients, and no more...
...Angels, became an aviation technical adviser for the cinema. In 1929 he organized Nevada Airlines, operated it successfully for eight months. But the obscurities of ordinary business held no attachment for Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold-and-crimson flying helmet...