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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zoot Suit. A secret session of Indianapolis judges, called by Judge Emsley Johnson Jr., set aside a plea that they wear gay, floral-patterned robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Editor of Stars & Stripes is Major Emsley M. Llewellyn, a Tacoma advertising man who covertly sneaks his own contributions into his "Army Poets" column. Business manager is an ex-Hormel Packing Co. executive, Private Warren McDonnel. News Editor Robert L. Moora, a staff sergeant, is a former Herald Tribune desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daily Stars & Stripes | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Died. Sir Emsley Carr, 74, editor of Britain's No.1 scandal sheet, News of the World, world's largest Sunday paper; in Surrey, England. In 50 years he boosted its circulation from 40,000 to 4,000,000. Sir Emsley's formula: thorough coverage of scandal, sex crimes, divorces, miscellaneous murder, and sport. His pet boast was that he had never fired a member of his staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Said Sir Emsley with brilliant understatement: "We do not cater for the intelligentsia alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribute to a Scandalmonger | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Among 250 guests at a luncheon in Sir Emsley's honor were Winston Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook, John Jacob Astor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribute to a Scandalmonger | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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