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...voice was faint, muffled: "This is Paris calling. . . ." The Associated Press deskman in London, answering the telephone, then heard: "This is Ed Kennedy . . . Germany has surrendered unconditionally. That's official. Make the date Reims, France...
Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
Headlined the New York Times: "Is Red Paper's Face Red!" Said a Daily Worker deskman: "It was a typographical error. . . . This sort of thing happens sometimes. You see, the boys down in the composing room get to throwing the word 'Communist' around...
...weekly Baltimore Catholic Review printed a moderate objection. After four days quiet, Archbishop Curley returned from a trip out of town, heard what had gone on, reached for his telephone. An underling on the Sun's desk took the call. To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer. Later in the day Editor John W. Owens visited the Archbishop who demanded a public apology by the Sun on his own terms. Editor Owens refused...
...Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...