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...ruddy Samuel I. Newhouse had worked his way from office boy to publisher of the Bayonne, N. J., Times, bought the Staten Island, N. Y., Advance and made it pay, reached out to acquire the Jamaica Long Island Press, the Long Island City Star-Journal, the Newark, N. J., Ledger. He was quietly buying an interest in the doddering Syracuse Herald when he heard about the Hearst-Burrill negotiations. Seeing a chance to control the evening field in Syracuse, Publisher Newhouse persuaded his backers to put up more money, offered $975,000 for the Journal and American, got them quick...
...sometimes jobs. J. David Stern is now its senior publisher. It now has only four papers (not counting the pipsqueak tabloid News) and they are engaged in a bitter struggle for survival. Reading from Left to Right, Philadelphia's papers are the morning Record and Inquirer, the evening Ledger and Bulletin. All were making news last week...
...time she went to Berlin in 1924, as chief of the Philadelphia Public Ledger bureau, she had a Richard Harding Davis reputation. But she had the good sense to stop trying for scoops and to study the temperament and philosophy of the German people. She made such a thorough job of it that she still knows Germany as well as she knows the U. S. Hostile critics have said she knows it better...
...spent the following year in England as a Rodes Scholar, mixing academic with journalistic endeavor. Leaving Cambridge, he joined the Philadelphia Public Ledger, for which he covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper...
...squashmen won ten out of 15 for .667, while the wrestlers were also on the winning side of the ledger with a .625 mark. They also placed in a third place tie in the Eastern Intercollegiates with Yale, who had previously defeated them...