Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exile Blackmer's distaste for publicity was sharpened by an embarrassingly melodramatic account of his case which was published by La Presse (Paris mob journal). The details given by La Presse were such that they seemed to have come from Exile Blackmer himself. La Presse said that when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window...
...early account of this skull replacement, the Journal of the American Medical Association last week unhappily commented: "It's even worse Without Brains...
From time to time, he has owned many another. Among the journalistic corpses which litter his past are the New York Mail, swallowed by Frank R. Munsey; the Detroit Journal, swallowed by Hearst; the Memphis News-Scimitar; a paper in Lancaster, Pa. These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice...
...marketing society and his political problems, he can be said to have become that standard U. S. product, a Busy Man. To save time for him something new in farm magazines has been invented. Monthly at Rochester, N. Y., there used to be published Rural Life & Farm Stock Journal. In its place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news a high-grade farmer ought...
...Died. Captain William Rule, 89, oldest active editor in the U. S., founder (1885) and publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...