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Last week the U.S. magazine World fleshed out the MacLean-Burgess story with still more details gleaned and pieced together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
Bryan, who was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors last year, started on the Journal as a cub after attending the University of Missouri School of Journalism, became managing editor in 1940. During World War II, he went to Europe as a correspondent, was wounded, captured by the Germans, and, after several months, freed by the Russians from a prison camp in Poland. After his return to the Journal, he was named editor in 1945. In Atlanta, Bryan has spent almost as much time at public speaking and creating good will for the paper as he has spent...
Early Years: Earl Warren was born March 19, 1891, in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street, grew up in the "railroad section" of Bakersfield. He earned his spending money as a newsboy, a railroad callboy, a freight hustler, a farm hand and a cub reporter on the Bakersfield Californian. At Bakersfield's Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which...
...reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, Bernice Freeman, 48, in her spare time once edited a weekly in nearby San Rafael. On her staff was an amiable cub reporter named George Boles. "George didn't turn out to be a very good reporter," she recalls, "but he had a flair for excitement and wrote the most marvelous stories. Only we couldn't print them-libel, you know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit...
...California State Fair, Governor Earl Warren got fussed during the crowning of a wine queen, put the royal ring of grapes on upside down, apologized: "I'm about as handy as a cub bear when it comes to crowning queens...