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Noodling the Newspapers. Maury Paul, a kinsman of the Philadelphia Biddles, broke in as a society reporter on Frank Munsey's Philadelphia Times in 1914. He soon moved on to Munsey's New York Press. Knowing nothing then of Manhattan society, he filled out a glowing story on his first big assignment, a Metropolitan Opera opening, by copying the names off the brass plates on box doors. Next morning Mr. Munsey summoned him and snorted: "You have succeeded in opening half the graves in Woodlawn Cemetery." Maury had reported present many an ancestral box holder long dead...
...Tolstoy's day, the enemy dead-and the victors, after 127,000 Russians had fallen -were British and French. Last week a more dreadful foe, with more dreadful weapons, attacked and died and still attacked the deep defenses around the city. Leo Tolstoy's distant kinsman, Alexei, wrote in Red Star: "Now at Sevastopol there is no air fit to breathe because of the decaying bodies of German and Rumanians." Hitler's Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein drove his men ever closer, over the mounds of their dead, and a U.S. correspondent cabled: "The question...
...went to war, got the Iron Cross and malaria, never was wounded. Back in Berlin, Koppell was hired by a kinsman who owned a printing establishment...
...seven years Washington correspondents have noted and written much of Secretary Early's blunders. An imposing, hot-tempered, red-faced Virginian (distant kinsman of Confederate General Jubal A. Early), a onetime newspaperman himself, and President Roosevelt's press secretary since 1933, he has also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them...
...been to Paris, and in turn had received President Lebrun in London. To make the utmost of their trip to the U. S.,* the King had at his elbow Secretary Alan Frederick Lascelles, who wrote his speeches, and Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King (the Queen's kinsman), who edited them...