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...Rohrbacher set out to get some money. He went to New York City and Chicago and made speeches, finally raised enough to build a parochial grammar school and high school and two churches. Then, to get around among his scattered flock, he took flying lessons and piloted a Piper Cub from county to county...
Common Sense. His methods worked because they were simple. "All you need in this business, " Hannagan liked to say, "is newspaper training and common sense." Stephen Jerome Hannagan had both. At 14, he broke in as a $1-a-week part-time cub on his home-town Lafayette (Ind.) Morning Journal. He was campus correspondent for the Indianapolis Star during two years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work...
...Series ended, Baseball Commissioner Landis called in Dunkley and showed him a desk piled high with wires and letters. Because Dunkley had correctly predicted that the Series would go seven games, readers were complaining that the Series must have been fixed. Reporter Dunkley. who quit school at 14 to cub on the Kalamazoo Gazette, joined the Chicago bureau of the A.P. in 1911, soon moved into a hotel room only one block away so he could be near his work. He has lived there ever since...
...serious students of the Soviet system,* criticized the library board for having "Red propaganda" on the shelves, demanded that the books be removed or plainly labeled "Propaganda -Communist." Publisher Fox himself led the attack with rambling Page One editorials that confused readers but made Fox as happy as a cub with his first byline...
...months after the Houston Post's Cub Reporter Franklin Reed, 21, began covering Houston's draft boards for the Post in 1950, he was himself classified 1-A. City Editor Harry M. Johnston, 32, and a veteran of World War II, was delighted; the classification was just the thing to make Reporter Reed's daily column of draft news seem more authentic. But when weeks passed and Reed was not inducted, City Editor Johnston came to the conclusion that the column was growing monotonous. At Johnston's urging, earnest Reporter Reed asked his board for immediate...