Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation for gangrenous appendicitis...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
...Renaud went back to newspaper work, on the copy desk of the Tribune. His rise was step by step-head of the desk, telegraph editor, news editor, night editor, assistant managing editor. Ten years later he went to the Evening Post as managing editor...
William Preston Beazell, who became assistant managing editor when Swope was made executive editor of the World, remains at his desk in the front office Two resignations from the staff were announced, but neither was on account of the departure of Executive Editor Swope...
Wiping three tears out of one eye, Harry Evans sat down at his desk, in the time-honored office of Life, and wrote, last week, under the caption The Movies, the following wan preamble: "With head uncovered I bow reverently and take my pen in hand to write this column, formerly edited by the dean of all moving picture critics, Robert E. Sherwood...