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...Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary movement under Sun Yatsen. With some Moscow gold...
Stockly came to TIME with the background of a pilot, a cab driver and a steel -mill -worker -turned -reporter who was fired by a newspaper editor with the warning: "You're a fine legman, but you'll never be a good writer as long as you live...
...Trail. By last month, the only damaging bit of testimony left was that a coat found in the stolen car belonged to Silas Rogers. When an Argosy legman found and questioned the man who had given the testimony, the witness changed his story: on second thought, said he, Rogers' coat was brown, whereas the one found in the car was blue. Last week, just two days before Christmas, Governor Battle signed a pardon, and Silas Rogers, after nine years behind bars, stepped from the Virginia State Penitentiary a free man. Wrote Editor Kilpatrick: "It is, for this newspaper...
...executive, managed to write seven pieces that were accepted, but for which he did not get paid. At last Ross said, "I guess you're a writer. All right then, goddammit, write." So Thurber continued to write pieces and, in addition, he and White and one legman for 7½ straight years got out "The Talk of the Town," which, nowadays, requires virtually a platoon. Between them, White and Thurber pretty much set the tone of the magazine that Ross had created...
...words. Minutes later, City Press had the first flash on Howey's beat-'the great Iroquois Theater fire, in which about 600 died. Hildy Johnson, the star reporter of the Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...