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Last week, gathering manpower for his campaign, he staged a staff raid on the Examiner. Hearstlings Edward W. McQuade, city editor; Alvin Hyman, top rewrite man, and Richard V. Hyer, legman specializing in crime reporting, walked out to go to work for Paul Smith's Chronicle. The rattled Examiner hastily scattered pay raises to keep the rest of its staff. But Smith boasted that his new recruits had not changed sides for money. "They simply are going to work for an honest newspaper," he cracked, "so they can live with themselves and their children...
...abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then he ordered women's lounges installed at once. He gave backshop employes a $3-a-week raise; the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, caught flatfooted, had to follow suit. Last week Hoyt sent a legman legging it on a 13-state assignment to retrieve its famed regional coverage...
...which is in considerably better condition than the bomb-scarred Palace, went long-legged Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times. Six hours later Hirohito saw bullet-headed Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, who, like the U.P.'s biggest stock holder, Roy Howard, likes to turn legman himself once in a while...
Goebbels' legman Helmut Sündermann echoed Winston Churchill, with a German accent. He cried: "The German nation is to be wiped off the map. German men are to be enslaved and deported to all corners of the earth. . . . When enemy divisions reach German soil, they must be attacked from every house, every village, every field, every hill. We must not leave a single blade of German grass which might feed the invaders...
...later, Fala's master, heeding the urging of his physician, headed south for a two-week rest. Along went the President's military legman, Admiral William D. Leahy, and military and naval aides. Said the White House announcement: "The President will devote himself exclusively to relaxation in fresh air and sunshine...