Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reporter Hill will be occasionally available to Hearst's International News Service to report momentous news. He was drafted immediately to cover the Morgan examination in Washington. His contract permits him to continue broadcasting...
...Reporter Hill's new job is to write a daily editorial entitled "The Human Side of the News" (same title as that of his Columbia broadcast) for Hearst evening papers, in the space hitherto filled by Claude Gernade Bowers, new Ambassador to Spain...
Dapper, florid Ed Hill, whose wife and newspaper cronies call him "Bill." is distinctly of the Frank Ward O'Malley school of news reporting. Born 48 years ago in Aurora, Ind., he attended University of Indiana where his English professor would emphasize examples of journalism by pointing to the New York Sun. Hill determined to get a job on the Sun and, after pestering the city editor for weeks he finally did get a "temporary"' assignment, which lasted 22 years...
...Reporter Hill 1912 was the golden year of newsstories. He covered the Herman Rosenthal case, his "favorite"' murder of all time; saw the S. S. Carpathia steam into New York harbor with Titanic survivors; covered the three-cornered presidential campaign. He has covered every major political campaign since then (except 1924). His return to reporting last week was with a dazzling flash: he got photographed with his first big interviewee, John P. Morgan...
Like most top newsmen Ed Hill had his turn at Hollywood. Fox Films sent him to Italy and Spain in 1926 to stage a beauty contest, bring home the winner. In Barcelona he was considering three candidates when he spied a non-contestant on the sidelines, handed her the palm. She is Maria Alba, who played opposite Douglas Fairbanks in Mr. Robinson Crusoe...