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Robert T. Gannett...
...players were given loosening up work and light throwing and then subjected to a short batting drill with the pitchers tossing them, in at half speed. Regular Varsity team men from last year reporting for the first team were outfielders Bob Gannett, Rud Hoye, and Jo-Jo Soltz, and infielder Dick Grondahl. Last year's Freshman regulars include Jim Tully, Fred Keyes, and Charlie Davis...
...your report on my debate with Mr. Gannett [TIME, Jan. 23] you refer to "International Paper Company, which once owned stock in Gannett papers. . . ." According to all reports, including that of the Federal Trade Commission, the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co. I must insist upon this point because, in the course of the debate, Mr. Gannett, too, tried to make a distinction between the Paper and the Power Company, as if they were separate enterprises...
...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...
Ickes (on the air): "Freedom is impossible. . . . Did he [Mr. Gannett] tell his readers that he was in hock [to International Paper Co., which once owned stock in Gannett papers in Albany and Ithaca]? ... At Johns Hopkins there has been a very sensational finding resulting from study of the effect of cigaret smoking that has not appeared, so far as I know, in any newspaper in the United States...