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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...
...week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
...silent opposition. He built a trapdoor to his attic, began translating smuggled copies of London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin tissue, were carried to the printers in a hollow cane. Bundles of the finished sheet were transferred in store elevators, on dark street corners, in crowded busses. Yet each man knew only the distribution links above...
Raids and arrests made each issue a crisis. Once a German policeman, directing a raid on a trembling printer's shop, sat down on a type form of Free Belgium, almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...
...patrons (mostly Negroes) of Philadelphia's Nixon Grand Theatre, Manager Si Cohen last week was preparing a rare treat. During the run of Damaged Goods, a photoplay dealing with the ravages of venereal disease, he planned to give on the stage at each evening show one free Wassermann test. To 100 lucky coupon holders, less exploitational Wassermanns were to be available daily at nearby clinics...