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...headed Dunster House Junior, who won the New Englands last month, took both of his first two rounds from Thomas Larner of Washington, D. C. and was reckoned a cinch to win until the climactic punch in the last 30 seconds of the third and final chapter...
Wrote Newsman Sullivan from Terre Haute two days after: "I visited the plant of the St. Louis Star-Times, in which the column has appeared for some years. . . . I had a pleasant visit with Newspaper Veteran Larner. ... To my unbounded amazement, he told me that he uses some of this column's original typewritten copy to drive home to young reporters the importance of submitting 'clean' copy to the Star-Times composing room. . . . The joker in it, to this reporter, was that composing-room foremen for the past 20 years have berated me for single-spacing...
Joker in it, to St. Louis newsmen, was that Ed Sullivan's column does not appear in the Star-Times, but in the Post-Dispatch. Another joker was that Columnist Sullivan got his names mixed: "Newspaper Veteran Larner" turned out to be news editor, William R. Miner...
Bailey's boat: Elliott, Pierce, Richardson, Bodell, Fay, Koeniger, Evarts, and Larner...
Edward B. Larner...