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...dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this Capitol comment. Not gossipy but increasingly spicy, Preston Grovers column attempts humor, shuns scandal, specializes in harmless speculation...
...early suggested that the pregnant logotype be omitted on AP feature stories. Since last May AP has circularized its members saying: "NO LOGOTYPE PLEASE! Editors: In the interests of providing a livelier Washington column than would be possible under strict adherence to the rules of Associated Press reporting, Preston Grover is being given a latitude of expression which makes it mandatory that the AP logotype be omitted from his copy...
Boston--Thomas Grover, Harry Kennard Mansfield, George Pershing Mayhew, Robert Baker Partlow, William Redman Tully...
Recently Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has made pointed remarks about Pan American's "monopoly." And the new Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...
...women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months in prison before going back to the sea. Seaman Holmes's story, radically transformed by the crack team of Scenarist Grover Jones & Director Henry Hathaway (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine) and magnificently photographed by Academy Award Winner Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms), makes a notable adventure picture...