Word: hannagan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standards other than watch-ticks "Gar" Wood's race was a victory. It provided columns and columns of newspaper publicity under the dateline of Miami Beach, Fla., an accomplishment which caused double satisfaction to a short, round-faced, exceedingly affable young man named Stephen Jerome Hannagan. Hannagan is Wood's press agent, Miami Beach's press agent. Geographically, his time is divided among Miami Beach, Montauk Point, L. I. and the Indianapolis Speedway, whither he dashed last fortnight to prepare publicity for the annual automobile races to be held there in May. Professionally his prime allegiance goes...
Because his full name would not fit in a column of the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal when he was given his first by-line nearly 15 years ago, Stephen Jerome Hannagan became "Steve" Hannagan. Today "Steve" Hannagan is a name known in practically every important newspaper office in the U. S. and most of the better barrooms...
...Hannagan began press-agentry when Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming automobile racers came to Lafayette. McCarney, once a Broadway impresario, was taken ill and young "Steve," who had never before seen a racing car, publicized his show. On the strength of his success he ventured to Indianapolis, worked on the Star for a time and eventually attached himself to Promoter Fisher's Speedway. Result: the "boy press agent." as Promoter Fisher called him, set a new attendance record for the races which he has been exploiting ever since. Early in the game "Steve" Hannagan established a reputation...
Taking a Christmas holiday in Florida in 1924 Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
Engaged. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 23, small captain of Yale's football team; and Miss Marion Noble, stenographer with Southern New England Telephone Co. in New Haven, Conn., his friend since school days. The engagement was revealed by Writer Steve Hannagan in Cosmopolitan...