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...will, read last week, the late Publisher Josephus Daniels left his Raleigh News & Observer to his family. He also left some directions on how he hoped the paper would...
...Died. Josephus Daniels, 85, "Tar Heel Editor," World War I Secretary of the Navy (his Assistant Secretary: young Franklin D. Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed...
Period Sets. Sixty-three-year-old Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from...
Wrote Southern Editor Haskett: "The whole transaction was rotten . . . ungentlemanly, unsportsmanlike . . . worthy of no praise. . . ." Last week, thanks to his editorial, the U.S. press went to town on the case of Harvey Jones. Josephus Daniels' Raleigh News & Observer picked up the story first and its 85-year-old publisher sternly told Ahoskie off. United Press (14 hours ahead of the napping A.P.) took the story from there. Manhattan's underdog-loving PM launched a "Cadillac for Jones" fund. Kiwanis' national president, a North Carolinian himself, told the Ahoskie club to give Harvey a Cadillac. It wasn...
...editors and educators took the bait. Cried Josephus Daniels in the Raleigh News & Observer; "There was a time when a man uttering such an unsupported slander would have [had] his tongue cut out." Protested the Lawrence, Kans. superintendent of schools: "I just wish Mr. Green could have attended our junior-senior prom. . . ." The University of Wisconsin's dean of women coolly observed that "it is impossible for anyone to have the facts...