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...FRANKLIN KNOX...
...been a paying guest of the Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds. He played footie with McCormick; and as a landlord saw no reason to charge...
...donation by Mrs. Annie Reid Knox for exchange fellowships topped a list of gifts to the University totalling $7,648,848.18 made during the past year...
...Yorker-strives for the drawing that is comic in itself, trims its captions to a single punch line. Punch frequently gets deep into politics and economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...country house than to London's Fleet Street. Once a week its four editors and six or seven regular contributors (led by Sir Alan Herbert) get together at the celebrated Punch Round Table, for luncheon, brandy and a discussion of the week's main political cartoon. Editor Knox, who has been working for Punch for 40 years and writes the pieces signed "EVOE," puts the rest of the issue out on faith. He holds no story conferences, never knows what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited" file...