Word: johnes
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...Tour of the new John Hancock Life Insurance Building...
...Eastern contingent, which leaves Decameter 18, will be coached by Dartmouth's Tesn McLaughry an Colgate's Andy Kerr. Other members of the team picked yesterday are: Hillary Chollet and pote Dorset (Cornell), Tom Rowe (Dartmouth), Bucky Walters (Brown), Phil Ryan (Navy), Clayton Tonnemaker and Gordon Soltan (Minnesota), and John Schweder (Penn). When complete, the squad will number...
...have shown this letter to John W. Cutler and other members of the 1908 championship team who are all in accord with these views...
There is some justification for pointing up Lewis, and the author documents it: "In the year of 1937 John L. Lewis and his activities took in the New York Times 99,816 column inches or 4.2 percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance...
Here is a rare and remarkable book. The reader can pick it up and read an expose of asylum condition in the London og 1699 or an account of the shooting of John Dillinger in 1934. He can find Alexander Hamilton defending the freedom of the press against the Crown in 1735 or a negro being railroaded in Alabama in 1941. He will find he newspapermen--the good ones--write stories that are as exciting and timely three hundred years after publication as they were when the ink was still...