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...challenge Dictator Stalin's ability to kill false rumors, day after the Lyons story appeared, the New York Jewish Morning Journal received from its London correspondent this dispatch: "Radio station Moscow announced Voroshilov, now Dictator of Russia...
Reporter Lyons, 32, short, dark, was educated in the college of the city of New York and Columbia University. He began newspaper work on the Erie, Pa. Dispatch-Herald, later joined the New York Bureau of Tass (Russian news) Agency. Three years ago he was made manager of the United Press Bureau in Moscow. There, for diversion, his beauteous U. S. wife has played in two or three Russian films...
Many a newsman, famed and obscure, remembers when "C. C." was called from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1896 by the late famed Joseph Pulitzer to take the city desk of the Evening World. In the next 20 years City Editor Chapin won his nickname, "Simon Legree of Park Row." Brilliant, erratic, hardbitten, utterly ruthless, he feared no one. was feared by many, his underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies...
...Paul last fortnight U. S. District Judge John B. Sanborn punctured the defense. Said he: "The article was of value to the plaintiff from the standpoint of increasing sales of its magazine. . . . Anyone reading [the article in the Dispatch] would know what men had been selected [by Grantland Rice] and the general scheme used in their selection, and unless they were interested in Mr. Rice's lit- erary style, they would have no need for the complete article. . . . The Dispatch availed itself of the labor of Mr. Rice by appropriating the fruits of what he had done and expressed...
...silence that has cloaked with impenetrable mystery the whereabouts of Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the CRIMSON'S poor-less prognosticator of sports scores, was partially broken last night, just as the paper was going to press, when a breathless telegraph boy arrived with the following dispatch, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania...