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...Public Ledger was running Isles of Fear serially. F. W. Welty, a prominent Catholic layman, was Managing Editor and the undersigned was reading Mayo's stuff on the night copy desk. Well, you know how it is Christmas Eve. The piece for the next day came over the desk when the undersigned was feeling as a person working on Christmas Eve does feel, and it got only a cursory reading, a few paragraph marks and a head. Well, so Christmas Day, the Ledger published a gratuitous insult to the Virgin Mary, it being Miss Mayo's opinion...
STEPHEN FOSTER, AMERICA'S TROUBADOUR-John Tasker Howard-Crowell ($3.50). In a 70-year-old ledger in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital can be found the record of the death of Stephen Foster. The No. 1 U. S. songwriter, thin and wasted at 37, had fallen in his Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert...
...first half of its fiscal year, found itself with a $14,768.621 surplus. It was merely a bookkeepers' surplus-a row of eight figures in black at the bottom of a column of current running expenses. The real story was on the other side of the ledger. To nine fat figures in red labeled "Emergency Funds," a tenth was last week added as the 1934 deficit climbed over the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year...
Virginia Beach was ripped and torn apart by the surf. With its power turbines under water Norfolk was left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake...
...rows of others. Enthusiasm and aptitude grew apace. Last week Gary Bok, 28, found himself occupying his late grandfather's office in the Curtis-Martin newspaper offices. It may have been mere coincidence that shortly after Gary Bok moved in, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., assistant editor of the Ledger, was sent to take charge of the New York Evening Post for six months over the shoulder of Editor Julian Mason. Then he will recommend whether or not that money-losing sheet should be continued. (Three bidders last week were trying to pick it up for a bargain...