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With the help of two sons and a daughter, all of whom work for him, Publisher Hoiles runs his chain from Santa Ana. He shouts his letters and columns to a long-suffering secretary, passes out pamphlets on Christ and taxes to all comers, harangues editors, reporters and the janitor. But he confines his independent opinions to his signed column. Says he: "The news columns don't belong to us. We're just like stenographers...
...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...
...Spokane, Drama Critic John Mason Brown told an audience of educators what years of low teacher pay has done to U.S. schools and colleges: "Only too often the finest member of the faculty is the janitor...
...price" to which Borgatti referred in connection with the use of Hemenway Gymnasium consists of a $6 fee to pay for a janitor-watchman to open and close the building...
...merchant marine radio technician trying to get back to his ship in New York, and using the name "Francis McGowan" the shabbily-dressed vagrant worked through C-entry in Dunster House and was apprehended by Yard police as he tried to talk his way past the Winthrop House janitor...