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...secured a new editor for his Manhattan paper, the New York Evening Post. The man whom Mr. Curtis secured is Julian Mason, who violates all newspaper tradition by being an exceedingly well dressed man, the best dressed editor in the country.* But Mr. Mason is not simply a natty dresser. He brought the Chicago Evening Post to a high rank among the newspapers of that city, was then called to Manhattan to become managing editor of the Tribune, now the Herald Tribune, the prosperity of which has risen phenomenally under his régime...
Your ignorant "Press" editor ought to be more familiar with the history of the press. There wasn't any "hearth." There was a private car in the Michigan Central yards in Chicago. In it William H. Vanderbilt was dining with some friends when an offensive young reporter, Clarence Dresser (who was I believe a brother of Theodore Dreiser), forced his way in demanding an interview. Mr. Vanderbilt did not want to see him but the reporter persisted. Finally Mr. Vanderbilt told him to wait till he had finished eating. The reporter could not be stopped: "But it is late...
Next morning Dresser told the world through the Chicago Tribune, omitting the context of the interview. See Melville Stone's Fifty Years a Journalist for confirmation of this account...
...championship, naturally will be an outstanding favorite to retain his title. Anyone who has seen the determined clear-striding little Harvard captain at his best will readily concede that the may lower the association record. The present mark of 9 minutes, 22 2-5 seconds, set by Ivan Dresser of Cornell in 1919, already has withstood six assaults...
...Rowe, Michigan 9 34 4-5 1909--P. F. Taylor, Cornell 9 27 3-5 1911--T. S. Berna, Cornell 9 25 1-5 1912--P. R. Withington, Har. 9 24 2-5 1914--J. S. Hoffmire, Cornell 9 23 4-5 1919--I. C. Dresser, Cornell 9 22 2-5 Other winners under 9.30 1914--D. F. Potter, Cornell 9 27 1-5 1920--H. H. Brown, Williams 9 27 3-5 1922--Walter Higgins, Columbia 9 28 1-5 1925--W. L. Tibbetts, Harvard...