Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's raucous Chicago Herald-American would love to revive the dear, noisy days of the Front Page era, if only it could remember how. Last week it made a loud...
...started when two Chicago policemen, sad-faced Captain Thomas Connelly and natty Lieut. William Drury, were suspended from the force. Their superiors suspected them of being too gentle with gamblers. To Chicago's frenetic Hearstlings* this looked like an opportunity too good to be missed. The Herald-American forced a few crocodile tears down its face, and did its best to make martyred heroes of Connelly and Drury. Then it hired them as reporters. Oldtime Police Reporter Leroy ("Buddy") McHugh, a veteran of Front Page days, was assigned to help them out. Then Connelly and Drury were turned loose...
They interviewed policemen's wives, as part of a Herald-American crusade for pay raises for cops. But when they started snooping around the Case of the Murdered Bride, all the other news of the day was shoved back among the goiter-cure ads. The story was a natural: the victim had worked as a dice girl in a gin mill and she had been married just two days. When she was found dead in a ditch, the hunt for her husband was on. Connelly and Drury found him. While the Herald-American pulled out all the stops (HERO...
Divorced. Igor ("Gigi") Cassini, 32, pompadoured Hearst society gossipist ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); by pretty, high-styled Austine McDonnell Cassini, 27, Washington Times-Herald gossipist ("These Charming People"); after 7½ years, no children; in Carson City...
...Herald-Tribune scribe Al Laney, after viewing the first B. C. scrimmage, ventured that the Crimson "figures to be a better team, even with a weaker line, but its record may not look so good (as last year) at the end of the season." Laney singled out for special mention the fact that "some passers have finally turned up in the vicinity of the Square," citing the work of Kenary, Gannon and Roche as particularly promising...