Word: newmyer
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George Marshall's successor is nearly everything that George Marshall is not. Arthur Grover Newmyer, 49, quit as general manager of the New Orleans Item-Tribune to join Publisher Hearst. His new job will complete a long, meritorious cycle: He began life as a $3.50-a-week stenographer on the Washington Times 35 years ago, when the late Walter Hutchins owned it. Arthur Newmyer, whose father ran a steam carpet-cleaning plant in Washington, rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred...
Perhaps you will be amused at the real facts surrounding the selection of A. G. Newmyer, general manager of the New Orleans Item-Tribune, of the excuse for Louisiana's "Historic Saturday" (TIME, Feb. 13). Here's what happened...
...custom, Mr. Newmyer had been reading TIME up to the point of turning out the lights Friday evening. In the Feb. 6 issue was a column advertisement of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, listing a February almanac...
When he received the 2 a. m. Saturday morning message to join the banking group, Senator Long, Governor Allen and others, he telephoned Mrs. Newmyer to read him the hotel advertisement from TIME beside his bed. From that he got the date and data on which the now famous proclamation was founded...
TIME marvels that Senator Long, Governor Allen, General Manager Newmyer, the New Orleans public library and the other Louisianans involved were unaware that Feb. 4, the date on which they thought "nothing in this world" ever happened, was the date of the first convention of the Confederate States of America...