Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Publisher Stern was in Manhattan winding up negotiations to sell a piece of the New York Post to City Councilman George Backer and return to Philadelphia and the Record. Milked by the Post, the Record last year lost $40,000 (which was canceled by the Camden Stern-papers' $42,000 profit) and Dave Stern could no longer afford to use it to support his ailing New York sheet. Currently he is the most harassed publisher in Philadelphia, and the man responsible for his harassment is Moses Louis Annenberg...
Brenda Putnam learned to sculp at the National Cathedral School in Washington and later under James Earle Fraser, Libéro Andreotti and Alexander Archipenko. Brown-eyed, dark-banged, slight and lively, she has worked and taught for years in a roomy studio on Manhattan's West 22nd Street. Summers, she and her father, Herbert Putnam, knock around in a sloop at North Haven, Me. Most of the last three years she has devoted to her book...
Marriage Disclosed. Eleanor ("Cooky") Young, 21, onetime (1936) No. 1 Manhattan debutante; and Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunny") Bacon Jr., 27; her first, his second; in Newport...
Died. Ralph Pulitzer, 60, eldest son of the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer; after an abdominal operation; in Manhattan. Under his father's famed will ("I particularly enjoin upon my sons . . . the duty of preserving . . . the World newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength. . . .") Ralph Pulitzer, who cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper...
Died. Edward Sandford Martin, 83, old-school epigrammatist, author and editor, who founded The Harvard Lampoon (1876), Life (1883), occupied "The Editor's Easy Chair" on Harper's Magazine (1920-35); of injuries after a fall; in Manhattan...