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...Clapper learned his trade in the hard, competitive school of the wire services. At 23, a cub in Kansas City, he joined the United Press, four years later scored a notable beat on the choice of Warren Harding in the G.O.P.'s smoke-filled room. He ran the Washington beats, was the U.P.'s chief in the capitol for five years. His Scripps-Howard column, started in 1936, quickly built an audience of 10,000,000 in 187 papers...
...five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still unsolved.) Young Earl Warren started his working life as a call boy, waking up railroadmen on time. Then he was a newsboy and cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. He played the clarinet in the Kern County High School band, later joining the Musicians' Union. At the University of Cali fornia, Warren was a steady but not bril liant student. He flunked second-year Greek; he failed to make the baseball team...
Pants is also called a man of surprises: no big-league player himself, he managed the White Sox to Chicago's last world championship, in 1917. As a Cub scout 21 years later, he obeyed Owner P. K. Wrigley's orders to buy lame-armed Dizzy Dean at any price, finally landed him for the most improvidently invested $185,000 in baseball history...
From Piper Cub liaison planes into the shell-pocked snows of the Apennines fell bundles of food and ammunition-and news. The Army's oldest divisional newspaper was still on the job, and the most remote patrols of the Italian front got their copies. The 45th Division News had cranked out a special four-color holiday edition...
With two bamboo and plaster dormitories, classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...