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Life in the pages of a Damon Runyon story is a happy affair, but Harry the Horse. Dave the Dude, Light-Finger Moe and many other guys and dolls seem to have been less engaging in fact than in fiction. When Runyon brought one of the real-life models of his characters home, his wife broke up the party by shouting: "Get that bum out of here...
Historian A. K. Moe credits a chance meeting with inspiring the motto...
Unfortunately, sturdier data must supplant this episode from Moe's fanciful History of Harvard. Veritas was one of several religious mottoes suggested in the early years of the College. At that time a spiritual team, Veritas was translated as "divine truth," the meaning Dante had given...
Fully confident that his only son would carry on after his death, Moe Annenberg (who also had seven daughters) paid more than $13 million in 1936 for the respectable Philadelphia Inquirer. Walter, who went to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, started out with his father in the bookkeeper's office, countersigning checks so that he could see where the money went. When Moe Annenberg bought the Inquirer, Walter became his father's assistant to learn his editorial and circulation tricks. Walter, who still knew more about art than the newspaper business, suggested that...
Start & Stop. When Moe Annenberg was sent to prison in 1940 (he died a month after his parole in 1942) and Walter had to take charge, he quickly proved that he knew the difference between Matisse and Adams. Against the stiff competition of Robert McLean's Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While...