Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bright, hard-charging Newsman Reynolds, onetime (1938-41) White House correspondent for United Press, was hired by the late Merchant Prince Marshall Field on the recommendation of their mutual friend, Franklin Roosevelt, who once showed his affection for Reporter Reynolds by sending his wife two dozen roses on the birth of their first child. Tom Reynolds went to work for Field's still-to-rise Sun as White House correspondent in 1941, scored many newsbeats of the breathless brand that delighted his publisher. Example: eleven days after Newsman Reynolds reported for the Sun that eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs...
...Good apprentices," wrote Benjamin Franklin shortly before his death in 1790, make good citizens." With these words, Franklin set up in Boston one of the earliest of U.S. foundations-a ?1.000 fund approximately $5,000) to provide loans : 5% interest to "young married artifiers." It was all very worthy, but there was one hitch. With the gradual disappearance of apprentices, the Franklin Foundation ran out of young artificers to sponsor...
...politics, Gannett backed Franklin Roosevelt in his early years, but by 1940 was billing himself as The Man Who Stopped the New Dealers. While he was denounced by F.D.R. as an "isolationist"-and by the late Andrei Vishinsky as a "warmonger"-Gannett in his political philosophy was always animated by the same abhorrence of waste that made him a successful publisher. Though he suffered from diabetes for 33 years, Frank Gannett did not slow perceptibly until 1948, when he had a stroke. Bouncing back, he ran his empire until 1955, when he fractured his spine in a fall. Management...
Other editors noted the same quality. "Before I graduated," Robert W. Ruhl '03 said, "I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon... The man could, if he wished, charm the birdies right out of the trees...
That he had non-"clubbie" tendencies is clear. "Franklin was not a typical club man of his generation at college," a classmate recalls. "He had more on his mind than sitting in the Club's front window, doing nothing and criticizing the passers-by. Thus his not 'making' the Porcellian meant only that he was free of any possible restraining influence of a lot of delightful people who thought that the world belonged to them, and who did not want to change anything...