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...newspapers in the flood's path, Pittsburgh's were hardest hit. When telegraphic facilities failed, Hearstmen on the Sun-Telegraph managed to get a long distance connection with the New York American, had Arthur Brisbane's column "Today" dictated over the wire. In it Mr. Brisbane announced that "Johnstown, Pa. has its second important flood," went on to wonder "whether engineers could not have arranged to let the second flood run around the city instead of through...
...mentioned in the bulletin was a fact all Hearstmen should have known: That the Canadian Government is determined to force newsprint manufacturers to raise their price from $40 to $45 a ton, by legislation if necessary...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...menu. The Author. John Kennedy Winkler, born in Camden, S. C. 43 years ago, moved to Manhattan, went to high school there, got a job with the New York American when he was 18. Unlike most newsmen, he worked for the same paper for 16 years. Unlike most Hearstmen, he dared to write up his famed boss (after he had left the American) in a series for The New Yorker, later expanded and published as W. R. Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Winkler was a star reporter before he was 21. A free-lance for the last ten years...
...Besides their military titles, Col. William Franklin Knox and Col. Guy T. Visk-niskki have three things in common: Both served in the Spanish-American War, both became high-ranking Hearstmen, both spell "economy" in large capitals. Last week Col. Viskniskki resigned as general manager of Star Co., technical publishers of Hearst's New York American and Journal, to become business manager of Col. Knox's newly purchased Chicago Daily News. In the War, Col. Viskniskki was for a time officer in charge of The Stars & Stripes, A. E. F. newspaper...