Word: journals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York version of Superman: "Not a mild-mannered reporter who put on a cape in a telephone booth, but a commanding editor who could use a telephone booth to get tickets to any sold-out Broadway show." Father Paul was city editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, the U.S.'s biggest evening paper through the '40s and '50s. He had muscular clout as well; his arms were those of "a well-manicured ape." It was intoxicating to hear friends inquire: "Ralphie, whaddaya think would happen if your father ever hit anybody with...
Paul Schoenstein's stock with his young son rose even higher when, during World War II, he was kept under surveillance by a couple of FBI men (the Journal-American had discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...
...award was the result of a Hearst stunt. A young New York girl was dying of a fierce disease and had "seven hours to live" (this uncanny precision - seven hours, not six or eight - was quintessential Hearst journalism). Penicillin would save her, but the Army held the existing supply of the wonder drug. Paul phoned the Surgeon General, talked him into releasing the antibiotic, and had it rushed to the hospital in a Journal-American radio car. He beat death by three hours, and the Times by a good deal more...
Stranger things than Poetry have happened in publishing, but not many. The magazine never thrived, but it survived, outlasting decades of precarious financing, attempted coups by competing schools of poets and unvarying public in difference. Its monthly circulation rarely topped 9,000 copies, but the journal's reach vastly exceeded its grasp. Whether or not they always read Poetry, nearly every American poet who mattered in this century submitted manuscripts...
...drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over his new accomodations at remodeled Dillon Field House. Mr. Hockey's quarters don't have any windows. Maybe he's claustrophobic in addition to his Crimsonphobia...The Journal suggested that shuttle buses be used for Harvard hockey faithful planning to make the pilgramage to BU's Walter Brown Arena this winter...Couple of very familiar faces in the Class of '78 have nailed down assistant coaching jobs. Squash wizard Mark Panarese will help Dave Fish while Corey Wynn takes...