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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...
...conference could recall any historic event that occurred on Feb. 4. Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast of purple oaths from Huey Long. Arthur G. Newmyer, one of the publishers of the New Orleans Item, was roused by telephone. A member of his family dug from the World Almanac the fact that President Wilson had severed relations with Germany on the night of Feb. 3. Huey Long pounced on it: "It took them two nights...
When President Harding died the country lost not only a President but a newspaper man. Mr. Coolidge is not a journalist, but, as a Government officer, he has his opinions as to what the press should be. He wrote a letter to A. G. Newmyer of The New Orleans Item, President of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association...