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...neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
Metropolitan newspapermen had a field day Tuesday at the slight expense of the Liberal. Union and an impromptu Dada demonstration. Practically overy dispatch labelled the dadaist's parade as "conservative" or "opposition," evidently mistaking them for members of the Conservative League, whose threatened counter march failed to materialize...
...journalists, but most (71%) of them chose journalism as a career and planned accordingly. Very few began on TIME. With an exception or so, they came to us from newspapers and magazines all over the U.S.-especially from the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Seattle Times-after about ten years' work apiece as reporters, re-writemen, editors, editorial writers, critics, sports writers. One put in 15 years on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, South Africa...
Died. E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, 79, London-born "prince of storytellers," publisher-publicized as history's most prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...
...example of the kind of guidance reports we get from our correspondents, let me quote from a recent dispatch from Sidney James, West Coast bureau chief...