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...failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: World's End | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Among these are Balboa Park, San Diego, the world's largest aviary; the San Diego Community Welfare Building; the Scripps Memorial Hospital; the Scripps Biological Institute at Miramar; the La Jolla playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Claremont (Pomona, Scripps) | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Newton Diehl Baker, dark, clean-shaven, fond of classics and gardening, eloquent in speech, did lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Assembled Animalcula. Dr. Charles Manning Child of the University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...after midnight when King Alfonso, enjoying a quiet game of bridge in the Miramar Palace at San Sebastian, was called to the telephone by an urgent summons from Premier de Rivera, who explained that twelve regiments of artillery were in mutiny and that the King's presence in Madrid was imperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alfonso's Luck | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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