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...first time, a Negro newsman was admitted last week to the President's regular press conference, granted credentials. He was light-skinned Harry McAlpin of the Atlanta Daily World (circ. 23,000) and the Negro Newspaper Publishers' Association. Previously, President Roosevelt had received 13 Negro newspaper publishers, heard their plea for an end to "second-class citizenship" and their 21-point statement of war and postwar aspirations...
...Reporter McAlpin went into the conference without having been accepted by the Congressional Galleries' standing committee or by the White House Correspondents' Association, which ordinarily pass upon an applicant before credentials are issued. No Negro has ever received their approval...
...behind the Modern Museum's new photographic venture is David H. McAlpin, grandnephew of the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. A precise-minded shutterbug who clicked his first camera in 1906, balding, snap-eyed Mr. McAlpin spends many a spare moment from his Manhattan brokerage business getting fragments of the world on film. A collector of fine and rare photographs, McAlpin has long felt that U. S. museums ought to do more for photography. When, a year ago, he gave Manhattan's stodgy Metropolitan Museum $1,000 to buy photographs, the Metropolitan's board of trustees...
Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...
Arriving at Manhattan's Hotel McAlpin to judge the finals of a contest for the title of Ideal College Girl, careering Novelist Fannie Hurst was disgusted to find that the major ambition of all the finalists was marriage, not a career. She snapped: "I'm sick of the lot of you. ... If this is the younger generation-ugh!" The London Times published a quatrain written by England's Poet Laureate John Masefield to commemorate Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit to Reichsführer Hitler: As Priam to Achilles for his son, So you, into the night...