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...blossomed out into a fruitful and profitable success. For in these two cities two baseball teams were meeting and struggling for what was somewhat grandiloquently referred to as the world's baseball championship.* One team was the Philadelphia Athletics, representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them...
...present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...
...vacation and I'd like to be a reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that of a "cub" and then announced in large headlines to Graphic readers: "Ex-Congressman on Graphic staff." With his eye also on publicity, Newsman Upshaw consented to have his stories "by-lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic's pages every day or so. His early assignments were street-corner interviews. His early...
Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
This did not mollify the Press Gallery. Behind Newsman Mallon they took their stand, the while jibing him about a possible jail sentence. Born at Mattoon, Ill., a product of the Notre Dame journalism school, he had cub-reported on Louisville papers, joined the United Press in New York in 1919, been shifted to Washington in 1921. With the Senate now on his trail, he became a Public Character. He made a talkie for Pathé Newsreel, into which Pathé edited a shot of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator declaiming the Gettysburg finale...