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Other famed or inveterate air travelers: William Howard Gannett, 77, of Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
...Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester...
...morning last week Publisher Gannett rose very early to open the doors of the Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette himself. It was a gesture of sentiment. Twenty-five years ago he, onetime newsboy, bought a half interest in the old Gazette from the late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...
Publisher Gannett's Dry convictions he accounted for in an article written last September for Editor High's Christian Herald. As a youngster he worked his way through high school as barkeep's assistant in a hotel. ". . . After watching booze ruin men, I made up my mind that if I ever got a chance, I would fight it . . . [now] I think that the eighteenth amendment is an asset to the folks who read our papers...
Aside from the question of who is going to put up how much of the money for the proposed "Christian" daily, there is the question whether Publisher Gannett and the religious sponsors will agree on publishing actualities. Both Messrs. Gannett & High agree that the paper should not be primarily an organ of propaganda for Church or Prohibition...