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Hans Fritzsche, No. 2 man to the late Joseph Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry, whose plea that he was an errand boy to Goebbels apparently was believed by the court...
Howard Hughes, one month out of a Los Angeles hospital where his plane crash put him, and still looking like a stretcher case (see cut), took to the air again, flew to Manhattan. His errand: pursuit of his $5 million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
During the day, Mrs. Kyner tramps through Rangely's muddy streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...
With this as a springboard, Elliott-who admitted that he was at the conference solely as "errand boy and drink mixer"-used the rest of his article to damn the British on general principles, Churchill "for his anti-Russian stand," "Washington cocktail-party gossipers" for predicting...
Specimen No. 2 was 52-year-old Walter Geist, a big-boned man with a plowlike face. Geist started life as an errand boy at Allis-Chalmers, also a manufacturer of farm implements; 33 years later he became its president. His habitat is Milwaukee...