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...Fritz Crisler-Dick Harlow coaching rivalry which is now deadlocked at one apiece and one tie is scheduled to break anew on Saturday with Crisler the top-heavy favorite to add another victory to his side of the ledger. BUT, if yesterday's practice session on Soldiers Field is any indication, Harlow and his team are definitely in the fight, willing to concede nothing to the highly publicized Maize and Blue outfit...
...Reid, whose New York Herald Tribune is a Republican bible. On the convention's fourth day, the Herald Tribune front-paged: "... A man of the people, a Democrat for many years, a Republican by choice, he seems to us to be heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia Public Ledger had just plumped for Willkie; since June 19, Roy Howard's 18 papers had been thunderously thumping. At mid-convention, his bellwether New York World-Telegram had three of its four featured columnists (Clapper, Johnson, Westbrook Pegler) firing for Willkie. To many a G. O. P. delegate-overwhelmed with...
Thus wrote a slight, earnest university professor in a letter to the Philadelphia Public Ledger one month before the Armistice was signed. Mild as he seemed to his students, throughout the war he had held fast to his convictions and finally in October 1918 he had felt moved to protest publicly his indignation "as a Christian and an American" against the "orgy of hate" indulged in by the press and the people upon the receipt of peace overtures from the enemy...
Slover of Norfolk. Meanwhile, the Times-Dispatch passed into the hands of a Norfolk publisher, Samuel LeRoy Slover. Already owner of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Slover was busily building up a little news empire in Tidewater Virginia. Before long he had the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, a Petersburg paper, radio stations in all three cities...
...years H. R. Knickerbocker covered Central Europe. For a series of 24 articles on The Red Trade Menace, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won a Pulitzer Prize. Edged out of Germany after Hitler came to power, Knickerbocker colorfully reported wars in Ethiopia, Spain and China for Hearst's International News Service, saw German troops march into Austria, then into Czecho-Slovakia...