Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight in Chicago, Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearstpapers, and half-a-dozen other Hearst bigwigs were frantically trying to do something about the gasping Herald & Examiner, struck by the Newspaper Guild and thinned by advertisers. The Herex is a favorite paper of Mr. Hearst's. But Mr. Hearst was not in Chicago...
...stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire service and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; Frej E. Hagelberg, auditor; and W. R. Hearst Jr., ablest of the sons, to represent the family...
Down went the stars of Executives White and Bitner, up went the star of Joe Connolly. Tom White kept his title but lost his authority, Harry Bitner lost both. Cherubic Joe Connolly became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, responsible directly to Judge Shearn. Photographed looking up at tall Joe Connolly at a Gridiron Club dinner (see cut, p. 49) stubby Clarence Shearn cracked: "That's just the way it is. I'm looking up and saying: 'Save us, Joe, save...
...Manhattan, during the battle scene of Maurice Evans' Henry IV, Part I, the offstage martial hurly-burly is provided by a gramophone record. Newshawks discovered its name: General Excited Confusion of Crowd at Baseball Game...
...city's 35-year-old transit troubles. Most New Yorkers long since decided what they wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. for $175,000,000 brought unification closer than it had ever...