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...degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused Bobo Newsom, Detroit pitcher, of brawling in the Shoreham Hotel. Newsom offered to punch him in the eye if he came around. Ruark went around to the Tigers' locker room, where they squared off, swung at each other...
...Lesson in Morals." New Dealing Columnist Lowell Mellett, a devotee of the hit-me-harder school, thought OPA's Sunday punch a disguised blessing: "I believe we have been given the one Christmas present we've wanted most-an increased sense of participation. . . . We not only want to do more, we want to be made to do more. We want, in fact, to be regimented-regimented much further into the war effort." But the New York Sun's George E. Sokolsky probably echoed many an embattled housewife, who was willing to be rationed, but wanted the rationing...
...hell of a good copyreader," recalls his friend Lee Miller, who now, as managing editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, sometimes refers to himself as "vice president in charge of Ernie Pyle." Editor Lowell Mellett, who still calls Pyle "one of the best desk men anybody ever saw," promoted him to be managing editor in 1932. But other Newsmen in the dingy city room on New York Avenue never dreamed that quiet, competent, friendly Ernie Pyle would ever be famous. "A good man, but not much drive," is the general recollection...
...Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," remembers Scripps-Howard's Editor in Chief George B. ("Deac") Parker. When Ernie proposed that he become a permanent roving reporter, Mellett and Parker agreed...
...Bade godspeed to frail, silver-haired Presidential Assistant Lowell Mellett, for six years a zealous New Deal employe, not conspicuously employed since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mellett, once a Scripps-Howard executive, will pundit a political column for the Washington Star...