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...decided not to wait for a composing typewriter. One was 29-year-old Bice Clemow, one-time news editor of Editor & Publisher, who had over $65,000 in his pocket, planned to start an offset daily this month in Hartford, Conn. The other was 31-year-old James Regis Fitzgibbon, a Pittsburgh boy who worked for a while on the Miami Herald. His daily was already on the stands in the little Louisiana town (pop. 6,299) of Opelousas...
Opelousas' Daily World is not the first offset daily, nor James Fitzgibbon's first attempt. Year ago, in Texas, he started the offset Monahan's Express. Taken ill a few months later, he turned the Express into a weekly. Last November he sold out, packed up and moved to Opelousas...
...year-old graduate of Tulane University's school of journalism, John Thistlethwaite, scion of an old Opelousas family, and Vincent Moseley, who last fortnight ran fifth in Louisiana's five-man gubernatorial primary (TIME, Jan. 29). Day before Christmas, with young Thistlethwaite as publisher, young Fitzgibbon as managing editor, the Opelousas Daily World brought out its first (Sunday) edition...
Talkative Kenneth Collins talked himself into an advertising job with R. H. Macy & Co. in 1926 by reciting a list of jobs he had never held. His chief asset was knowing a good thing when he saw it, and two of his good things, Margaret Fishback and Bernice Fitzgibbon, coined the glib slogans for which Macy's soon became famed: "Nature in the Roar," "Babies are Hard to Bear," "It's Smart to be Thrifty." By 1929 Kenneth Collins was an executive vice president of the Manhattan store; for that job his top salary was variously reported...
HARVARD 1935 M. I. T. Rial, r.f. l.f., Sarvis Boys, l.f. r.f., Doucetto Fletcher, c. c., Fitzgibbon MacKinney, r.g. l.g., Peterson Martin, l.g. r.g., Roffe...