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...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...
...taste in fancy ties. It is the story of the things I saw and the people I met in a year's roving from one theatre of war to another. . . ." There is little fighting war in Reynolds' book. But there is an inordinate amount of Legman Reynolds reacting to the excitement, triumphs, tragedies and discomforts of war-especially the discomforts...
...contrast with Chapman, who was his own legman and even typed his own copy, Hedda Hopper is real Hollywood. Not by accident has she risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...
Born at St. Charles, Mo., three years before the Civil War, Editor Johns studied at Princeton, was a legman on the Princetonian when Woodrow Wilson was editor. Meeting Wilson years later, Johns remarked: "You taught me all I know about journalism, and I taught you all you know about statesmanship." Said Wilson: "You may be right. I used in my last speech something you wrote for the Princetonian." After leaving Princeton, he worked for a while on the old Philadelphia News, founded and edited a paper in his home town...
First U. S. legman was a ship-news reporter, one Samuel Topliff Jr. A Boston coffeehouse proprietor, who kept a "news book" of recent happenings for the enlightenment of his patrons, hired young Topliff in 1811 to round up items. Reporter Topliff hired a boat, rowed down the harbor to meet incoming ships, got his news fresh from the passengers before they landed. Six New York City dailies later followed suit, outfitted a harbor boat, started a news pool. They called it The Associated Press, and it was the predecessor of Victor Lawson's agency...