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...Rochester, N. Y., the three-month-old Evening News (TIME, Aug. 1) made even better progress in breaking the monopoly inherited by Publisher Frank Gannett when Hearst withdrew in 1937. Although the News was not expected to break even until Christmas, last week it was reported to have $6,000 of profits in the bank...
...work on the survey, although it is understood that he group will call in other undergraduate aid as the need arises. Those appointed were from the Council, Cleveland Amory '39 chairman, Robert l. Green '39 mason Fernald '40 and Douglas Mercer '40 and from outside the council Robert T. Gannett, 2d '39, Joseph A. Patrick '39, David S. Burt '40, and Hughes Call...
Amory is president of the CRIMSON Green is captain of football, Fernald is a member of the track team, Mercer is Councilman in charge of Freshman Affairs, Gannett is president of the Undergraduate Athletic Council, Patrick is a member of the hockey team. Hurt is a member of the tennis team and call is head of the inter-House Athletic Council...
Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York...
...London, Publisher Gannett's candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...