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"Tiger" Grew. Theodore Roosevelt was the President under whom Joe Grew got his start in the Foreign Service?with extreme difficulty. Joseph, on graduating from Harvard, took two years abroad, sailed for the Far East. From Singapore he and two college friends went up into India with his well-worn...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is...
The slaying of one of His Majesty's officers by what Empire Poet Kipling called "lesser breeds without the Law" is the sort of thing the British Foreign Office used to handle in a way to make every loyal subject feel smug with satisfaction. In a House of Commons...
Syndicates. In the year of Editor & Publisher's birth Samuel Sidney ("S. S.") McClure, 27, quit Century Co. with the idea of buying original fiction from good authors, selling it to newspapers in different cities. He had no money for printed stationery. His young wife had often to choose...
Yarns about newshawks made the most readable matter in the Jubilee Number. Recalled was the enterprise of Dick Spillane who swam and rowed through the Galveston flood of 1900 (7,000 dead) to find a working telegraph wire, dictate a four-hour story to the New York Herald. "Cosey" Noble...