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Wiese went to New York in 1926 with a degree from the University of Wisconsin, a letter of introduction to book critic Harry Hansen and an itch to edit. Hansen introduced him to McCall's Editor Harry Payne Burton, who hired him. A few months later, when the temperamental Burton left, William B. Warner, president of McCall's board, asked young Wiese to tell him in writing what ought to be done to improve McCall's. Warner thought Wiese's first report too frivolous, asked for another. Wiese handed it in one morning, came back after...
...motors began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...
...reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...
Ardent atheists with a proselyting itch got a greenish light from the Federal Communications Commission. Disbelievers, the FCC ruled, were entitled to all the radio time they could...
Rose said that he would also offer his Pitching Horseshoes free to 100 U.S. papers. He wanted no formal commitments, so he could quit when he got tired of it. But he was obviously nursing a journalistic itch. Wrote he: "The sight of your own words in type is like having your back scratched-and when you get a byline-Rita Hayworth is doing the scratching...